A vapid mess that outwardly looks like a theatrical movie but just careens around from sequence to disconnected sequence like a badly tarted-up pinball.
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03/01/07
Living the Dream (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 5 Fresh: 0 Rotten:5 Average Rating: 2.8/10
Runtime: 84 mins
Synopsis: After a traumatic childhood being bullied Brenda (Sean Young) and her immigrant friend Jonathan (Christian Schoyen) grows up realizing that nothing has changed since childhood. In a desperate attempt the middle-aged friends start up their own business in Los Angeles to get their lives on... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Sean Young, Danny Trejo, Marilia Pera, Dan Stulbach, Jeff Conaway
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“Will you stick with me, no matter what?” Brenda asks on more than one occasion. Unfortunately for the filmmakers, the audience’s answer may well be “no.”
12/01/06
This vanity production ... seems to want us to sympathize with characters who are both unlikable and stupid. Where at the beginning I thought the level of abuse [the hero] endures was absurd and unrealistic, by the end I wanted to join in.
11/30/06
There is undeniable heart in Living the Dream, with its implicit criticism of mercenary values, but its world is populated solely by hustlers, recruiters and salesmen with nothing to sell.
11/24/06
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