Sophie (Courteney Cox) receives an errie phone call in November.
November
Stars: Courteney Cox, James LeGros, Michael Ealy, Nora Dunn, Nick Offerman, Anne Archer
Dir.: Greg Harrison
Rated R, 73 min.
One star (of five)
Death is inevitable. As are mediocre movies about death. There's no question about it. November seems to fall into the mediocre pile.
The film starts off with Sophie (Cox) sending her boyfriend Hugh (LeGros) into a convenience store to get her some chocolate because they just ate Chinese food (the fact that Hugh doesn't get what "people say about Chinese food" is a bad joke that runs throughout the film). He gets shot and dies. Sophie has headaches. And this is where it starts to feel like that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where they fall into a time loop, only things change here through the three loops.
And that plot device really seems to be what makes this film not work for me. As a movie about grief (the film only goes through three of the five stages), and really, the ending is a dead giveaway after Sophie's first trip to the shrink (Dunn). My problem is that the plot is too predictable, and the plot device is not new territory. In fact, this film doesn't even deserve to be compared to Memento or Mulholland Drive, as some reviews "point" out. I won't even go into how some reviews say Cox looks a lot like Saturday Night Live's Tina Fey (so she wears glasses in this film; oooooooooooooh, that makes her look like Fey; so if I shave my head and star in a film, will that mean I look a lot like Vin Diesel or The Rock?).
November does nothing new with an old plot device, and the acting is OK at best. All I can say is I'm sorry I spent $6 on this movie. Wait till it comes out on video or heads to the dollar movies if you want to be disappointed for yourself.
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