Living Out Loud

Living Out Loud director and written by Richard LaGravenese. Starring Holly Hunter, Danny Devito, Queen Latifah and Martin Donovan. Judith Nelson (Holly Hunter) quit her medical studies to marry. Years later, her husband Bill (Martin Donovan), a physician, divorces her to be with another doctor. Deeply frustrated, she now lives alone in her luxury apartment in New York, looking for a new meaning for her life. Pat Francato (Danny Devito), the janitor and lift-boy, has a troubled life himself: Gambling debts and the tragic death of his daughter took away all his spirit. One day, he and Judith meet in the right mood and a fragile friendship starts to grow. They can help each other to get on their feet again.

The sad fairy tell just goes on and on. To me this movie should be on Lifetime, it’s so depressing. The beginning of the scene with Judith and Bill at the restaurant having the argument I was interested to see where this movie was going. Once I saw they were divorced I knew the whole movie was going to be based on her life and career. What kept annoying me throughout the movie were these flash forwards she was having of events that happen and didn’t go as vision or doesn’t happen at all. Judith just kept talking to herself in her mind and her voice after awhile started irritating me.The movie had ridiculous scenes that were unnecessary to even be in the movie. One scene of her going to the “lesbian” club with Liz Bailey (Queen Latifah) and the massage scene were a bit too much. I was confused when she was getting the massage, she had a flashback of when she was a teenager and she had the same vision of herself when she was at the club; what for? Your 41 years old and it’s about time to stop being depressed and figure out what you really want to do with your life.

What was the purpose of Queen Latifah’s role? I mean yes she was a lounge singer that supposedly Judith listened to her CD that no one bought, when she was depressed. Just so happened one night Judith was wasted and almost got kicked out the bar that Liz was singing at, but Liz took her to the bathroom to try and sober her up. Typical there had to be a person to listen to Judith horrific life story and then turns out to be her best friend.

Overall the movie was okay. It wasn’t the worst movie in the world but I don’t think it was worth to put in theatres. If you want to see a movie that’s suspenseful, good plot and somewhat funny I wouldn’t recommend that you spend your money to go see it.