The two stars of this film, Alex Ross Perry and Carlen Altman, wrote the
roles for themselves. They play Colin and JR, two siblings who set out on
a car trip to pick up her belongings from her ex-boyfriend’s place. She
desperately wants to become a TV newscaster but does nothing to attain it,
except perhaps manipulating other people and getting her way; he is more
or less happy with his mediocre, boring life.
The picture starts out as a screwball comedy teeming with quick dialogue
and black humour. Colin teases his sister, telling her that their parents hate
her, which is why they haven’t even told her about the family vacation.
Having confronted her ex and her former girlfriends, though, JR begins to realise
that she has really become stuck in her own life and is either ridiculed
or avoided by people she knows. Gradually, the film turns more melancholic
and dramatic. Without grand gestures, the viewer is taken along to witness
the main character’s crisis and self-reflection.