The Leisure Class
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| HBO | Release Date: November 2, 2015 |
Summary:
A dashing English con man's scheme to marry into a prominent East Coast family is threatened by the arrival of his unhinged, ne'er-do-well brother on the eve of his wedding to the daughter of a U.S. senator. Feature directorial debut for Jason Mann, the winner of the fourth season of HBO's "Project Greenlight."
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Drama, Movie/Mini-Series
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IndieWire
Nov 3, 2015
Nov 2, 2015
The characters are barely sketched in at all, the pacing is wildly off--it's an 85-minute movie that feels like it lasts forever, even as it doesn't have enough time to properly service any important parts of the story--and the only sparks of life come whenever Weeks and Tom Bell (star and co-writer of the original "Leisure Class" short, and a former co-star of Weeks' on British television), as Weeks' less polished criminal brother, are simply bantering, and we know from the show that almost all of that was improvised.
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Oct 29, 2015
Having initially set out to make a comedy, the producers bowed to Mann’s darker vision, yielding something closer to a satire. But the targets aren’t particularly distinctive, and the notion of the entire narrative unfolding over a 24-hour period, as executed, makes for a rather blunt, heavy-handed approach.
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Nov 3, 2015
It is difficult to separate The Leisure Class from "Project Greenlight," and that’s probably to the film’s benefit, since it can’t stand up on its own. It’s a farce that’s not particularly farcical, a dark comedy with little humor, a screwball caper that wants to suggest great films of yesteryear without giving its own plotting and details the attention they need to work in that style. Everything feels undercooked.
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Oct 29, 2015
[Bruce Davison's] climactic, drunken interrogation of William and Leonard is an especially mean-spirited sequence that nonetheless gives this featherweight farce a much-needed kick in the pants. For a few minutes, a work of art that seemed utterly and completely pointless, in the best Project Greenlight tradition, suddenly feels vital and alive--even if it's still across-the-board rancid.
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Nov 2, 2015
Feb 13, 2023
The leads are genuinely funny, but it's too much after just 22 minutes in. It's Ricky Gervais-type humor but they never take their feet off the accelerator. No witness to their back and forth wouldn't be annoyed, whether it's other characters, the audience, Buddha.
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