Chicago – Taking the game of Scrabble and making it a thread for a romantic comedy and competitive intrigue is a wholly original idea. Director Bill Sebastian and screenwriter Juliet McDaniels guides a Chicago cast through the maze of those words in the new film “Qwerty.”
Rating: 3.0/5.0
The title refers to what is defined as the American keyboard standard – the first six letters in the top row spell out “qwerty.” But in the context of the film’s narrative, it is a maximum Scrabble word, garnering big points if used at the right time or the right part of the game board (triple word score!). The pursuit of words for Scrabble competition is the background of this Chicago-based story, which in front features a well-done romantic coupling between two outsider souls. Director Bill Sebastian displays a deft touch with the many themes, and uses creative composition to cover up some of the script’s character flaws.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
The title refers to what is defined as the American keyboard standard – the first six letters in the top row spell out “qwerty.” But in the context of the film’s narrative, it is a maximum Scrabble word, garnering big points if used at the right time or the right part of the game board (triple word score!). The pursuit of words for Scrabble competition is the background of this Chicago-based story, which in front features a well-done romantic coupling between two outsider souls. Director Bill Sebastian displays a deft touch with the many themes, and uses creative composition to cover up some of the script’s character flaws.
- 7/30/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Directed by Bill Sebastian, Qwerty tells the story of Zoe (Dana Pupkin), a lonely “word nerd” who puts her peculiar talents to work for the Chicago Dmv by checking every vanity plate request for a hidden dirty meaning (like, say, A55 5Ex). She harbors a dream to compete in the National Scrabble Championship, but with constant rejection coming from both her family, who consider her a black sheep, to her co-workers, who consider her weird, she can’t seem to push herself to enter.
That is, until she meets Marty (Eric Hailey), a man who has all but lost the will to live. After a quirky meet cute (Marty gets fired from his job at a retail store for ranting about overpriced underwear), the two spend the day together and soon enough the two fall in love. In Marty, Zoe finds the strength to stand up to her family and...
That is, until she meets Marty (Eric Hailey), a man who has all but lost the will to live. After a quirky meet cute (Marty gets fired from his job at a retail store for ranting about overpriced underwear), the two spend the day together and soon enough the two fall in love. In Marty, Zoe finds the strength to stand up to her family and...
- 4/20/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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