Anything Else (2003)

Starring Jason Biggs, Christina Ricci, and Woody Allen.

Anything Else is about a struggling actor (Biggs), his cheating, selfish girlfriend (Ricci), and his mentor (Allen).

This film dragged. Ricci plays a selfish girl who is cheating on Biggs' character, and it's painful to watch. Not because of bad acting, but because it's so hard to watch Biggs play yet another idiot pushover. I think Allen, as is mentor, is the older version of Biggs' character. His life stories coincide strangely (maybe it's just me) with the story Biggs tells. He also appears to be his 'conscience.' Allen stammers through all of his lines and after his first few dialogues, I was over it. Danny DeVito plays Biggs' unhelpful, yet well-intentioned, agent. Ricci cheats the whole time with different men, as far as I can tell. Then she leaves him for a doctor who she was shown getting an emergency check up on earlier in the film. I was bored.

I would recommend this to my mother, again. She stated she does, in fact, like Woody Allen films. 3/10.

Anything Else currently holds a 40% critic rating and a 43% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Anything Else trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMJnRli1TaU

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313792/

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