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Title: The Guilt Trip (2012)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Barbra Streisand | ... | Joyce Brewster | |
| Seth Rogen | ... | Andrew Brewster | |
| Julene Renee | ... | K-Mart Receptionist (as Julene Renee-Preciado) | |
| Zabryna Guevara | ... | K-Mart Executive | |
| John Funk | ... | K-Mart Executive | |
| Robert Curtis Brown | ... | K-Mart Executive | |
| Kathy Najimy | ... | Gayle | |
| Miriam Margolyes | ... | Anita | |
| Rose Abdoo | ... | Diana | |
| Tom Virtue | ... | Mature Singles Man | |
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Vivian Vanderwerd | ... | Mature Singles Woman |
| Worth Howe | ... | Bob | |
| Vicki Goldsmith | ... | Young Joyce | |
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Matthew Levinson | ... | Toddler Andy |
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Joseph Levinson | ... | Toddler Andy |
Los Angeles based organic chemist Andrew Brewster has just sunk his life savings into developing and now marketing an environmentally friendly, effective and human safe home cleaning product. Despite these attributes, he is having problems making any sales to distributors and retailers. He has planned a cross country business trip via automobile to make sales pitches to various companies along the way, starting in New York City and ending in Las Vegas. While in New York, Andy plans to stay with his overbearing mother, New Jersey residing Joyce Brewster, with who he has a love/hate relationship and who he does not see very often anymore. He doesn't want to tell her of his sales failures thus far as he knows she will only add more than her two-cents into the matter, which he doesn't want. Joyce's focus of attention is on Andy's single status and what looks to be his stalled romantic life, out of which again he wants her to stay. Widowed when Andy was eight, Joyce has never remarried or ... Written by Huggo
Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen are a great comedy team. In fact, the best part of Guilt Trip is when the credits are rolling at the end, and there are several scenes that the two of them apparently improvised during the filming. If the whole movie had been as entertaining as those outtakes, I would have given it a "10."
Unfortunately, the makers of Guilt Trip appear to believe that a movie requires a plot, and sadly, this one was clunky. For a comedy film to work, you either have to completely put reality aside (Blazing Saddles or Rocky Horror Picture Show), or somehow believe an unbelievable story (Airplane or the Blues Brothers). This film didn't fall into either category. The plot just wasn't strong enough to support the premise that any son would be crazy enough to take his mother on a long business trip with him, and there was no reason why he kept bringing her to all his business appointments. And his mother's nutty revealing of her deepest family secret, and her insane baby-naming system, were clearly tossed in just to provide somewhere for this film to go.
Don't get me wrong. I'd really like Streisand and Rogen to do another road trip together. But next time, let's just say that space aliens abducted them and forced them to travel together. And let both of the stars ad lib their way through the adventure. I'd pay to see that one.