SPIN ME ROUND (2022) ¢ ¢
D: Jeff Baena
Alison Brie, Alessandro Nivola, Aubrey Plaza,
Molly Shannon, Zach Woods, Ben Sinclair,
Tim Heidecker, Fred Armisen, Lauren Weedman
The manager of a franchise restaurant in Bakersfield, California, wins a corporate junket to Italy and has a flirtatious fling, for a day or two, with the company's charming but creepy CEO. There's some real potential for satire in this, but the sleaze factor effectively negates the funny stuff. There's something seriously disturbing in what the characters played by Alessandro Nivola and Aubrey Plaza are up to, and the film never really comes to terms with that. It takes way too long (like the whole movie) for the smart but credulous heroine, attractively played by Alison Brie, to tell her predatory boss to fuck off. She could've done that in about the second reel and saved herself (and us) a lot of trouble. I wouldn't normally advise anybody in Bakersfield to turn down a free trip to Italy, but this is one of those times.
