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Comedy, Romance 87 min R
Rotten Tomatoes56%Metacritic55IMDb
There's Someone For Everyone... Luckily Love Is Blind.
Love blossoms for Lily over double Meaty Boy burgers at mid-day when uber-computer nerd Jarrod comes in and leaves with free extra large fries. After gatecrashing Jarrod's party and proving her skills on the game console, Lily goes down to Jarrod's home town with him so he can settle an old score with a past school bully.
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Before Taika Waititi became the maestro of cosmic absurdity in Thor: Ragnarok or crafted the poignant satire of Jojo Rabbit, he gave us this modest, peculiar gem; a story about two magnificently awkward people fumbling toward something resembling connection. Eagle vs Shark is his feature debut, and while it lacks the refinement and assurance of his later work, it already contains his essential DNA: that off-kilter humor, that bone-dry sarcasm, that willingness to find both comedy and compassion in human ridiculousness. Every character here is nerdy, needy, warped, broken in some fundamental way. Lily, played with heartbreaking precision by Loren Horsley (who co-wrote the script), works at a fast-food restaurant and pines for Jarrod, the video game store clerk portrayed by Jemaine Clement with aggressive obliviousness. Jarrod is planning a costume party; when Lily shows up dressed as a shark to his eagle, the film's title becomes a visual echo of Sholom Aleichem's ancient wisdom: "A bird may love a fish but where would they build a home together?" No one in this film is cool, no one has their life together, no one would be mistaken for the protagonist of a conventional romance. And
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