Kabluey (2007)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Scott Prendergast

Writer (WGA):

Scott Prendergast (written by)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Every family has a black sheep. This one is blue.

Plot:

Inept Salman comes to help his sister-in-law tend to his holy terror nephews while Salman's brother is off fighting in Iraq...

Plot Keywords:

Cheating Wife

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Lisa Kudrow	...	Leslie
Scott Prendergast	...	Salman
Christine Taylor	...	Betty
Conchata Ferrell	...	Kathleen
Jeffrey Dean Morgan	...	Brad
Chris Parnell	...	Frank
Teri Garr	...	Suze
Angela Sarafyan	...	Ramona
Patricia Buckley	...	Elizabeth P.
Cameron Wofford	...	Cameron
Landon Henninger	...	Lincoln
Raquel Gavia	...	Esme
Bill Toney	...	Thermos Man
Nick Ashy-Holden	...	Leonard (as Nick Holden)
Matt Hensarling	...	Jared

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some sexual material including a crude reference, and brief strong language.

Runtime:

USA:86 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Austin, Texas, USA

Company:

Whitewater Films

Trivia:

Characters "Cameron" and "Lincoln" are based on the Director's real life nephews Wilson and Logan. The real boys appear alongside the child actors portraying them in the large birthday party scene.

Quotes:

Salman: Alright, now, which night-light? Annubis, Egyptian Jackal God? Or melted football shape?

Movie Connections:

References The Delicious (2003)

Pretty good, actually

Quirky and unexpected are probably the best ways to describe this film. Lisa Kudrow is actually pretty convincing as the burned-out army wife and gives a pretty solid performance throughout. Mainly I was impressed at the subtlety of her acting, which was refreshing after seeing some of her other characters (the smelly-cat-singing Phoebe will always be a lingering specter for Kudrow). Scott Prendergast captured the socially-inept, guy-that-never-got-his-act-together-after-high-school character pretty well and manages to drive the story with very little actual dialogue, emotion or expression, which is kind of the point of his character. His performance was actually pretty refreshing. I think the writer/director did a good job of portraying the embellished strangeness of small town middle America without ripping off Napoleon Dynamite. The ending was well done and the soundtrack is really good and kind of makes the movie come together.