Flower (2017)

One of my biggest celebrity crushes right now in Hollywood is with actress Zoey Deutch (Zombieland: Double Tap) and it all started when I first saw her in Everybody Wants Some!. So, when I was cruising around HULU looking for something to watch, I was excited to see that they had a movie with her called Flower which was written and directed by Max Winkler (The King Of Central Park). The film stars Deutch as Erica Vandross, a very sexually curious teenager who frames older men by performing sexual intercourse for money because she is trying to get enough money to bail him out of prison. Joey Morgan (Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse) plays Luke Sherman, Erica's mother's boyfriend's social awkward son who has just been released out of rehab and is now in her life. Together they form a very unorthodox relationship that gets them into all sorts of trouble. The film also stars Tim Heidecker (Tim And Eric Awesome Show) as Bob Sherman, Kathryn Hahn (Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation) as Laurie Vandross, Adam Scott (The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty) as Will Jordan, Dylan Gelula (First Girl I Loved) as Kala, Maya Eshet (Man Seeking Woman) as Claudine, Romy Byrne (Love After Love) as Alli Whitman, and Eric Edelstein (Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day) as Dale Cotter.

It's frustrating to look at Hollywood and you see the crap that they spew out every year and unfortunately a film like this one falls in the cracks. The subject matter itself is a little risque especially since she keeps a journal of all the different penises and openly asks her future stepbrother if he would like something done, but other than that it's a really solid story. Zoey's character kind of grows up in this film because for the first part, she's just a reckless teen who kind of does what she wants, but towards the end of the film she kind of has a purpose that is greater than her own and Luke sort of grows on her to the point that she cares about him. One thing the film does not do enough of however is focus on why Erica is the way she is. Instead, they just run with the idea of exploiting her sexuality and not showing you why the events of her life have led her to this. I thought that Zoey Deutch was absolutely amazing in the film, but the real winners have to be Kathryn Hahn and Adam Scott. Kathryn Hahn was so convincing as that mom that feels so bad about dad being gone that she threw out discipline and order for friendship with her daughter and now it's biting her in the rear end. Adam Scott does an amazing job playing a guy who knows he was caught, but is living in such denial because he has nothing else in life. I enjoyed watching the film for what it was and that was a comedy which is why I am giving the film an B+ for a final grade.