A lonely college freshman's life is turned upside-down by her impetuous, adventurous stepsister-to-be.A lonely college freshman's life is turned upside-down by her impetuous, adventurous stepsister-to-be.A lonely college freshman's life is turned upside-down by her impetuous, adventurous stepsister-to-be.
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- 2 wins & 14 nominations
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Andrea McKinnon
- Hallway Girlas Hallway Girl
- (as Andrea Chen)
Shoba Narayan
- Hallway Girlas Hallway Girl
- (as Shoba Narayanan)
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- TriviaFor the scene where actresses Greta Gerwig & Lola Kirke are looking through a closet, director Noah Baumbach did 55 takes.
- GoofsWhen Brooke's former high school classmate Anna Wheeler approaches Brooke and Tracy in the bar, Anna mentions that she and her husband have recently seen the play Other Desert Cities, which began previews at the Booth Theatre on October 12, 2011 and closed on June 17, 2012. If the film occurs during Tracy's first semester of college and culminates with Thanksgiving dinner with Brooke at Veselka, then the film would occur in fall 2011. However, when the would-be stepsisters walk through Times Square, a marquee for the revival of Annie is visible. The most recent Broadway revival ran at the Palace Theatre from October 3, 2012 (first preview) to January 5, 2014.
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[Last lines]
Tracy: [narrating] Meadow had made rich fat women less fat, and rich stupid kids less stupid, and lame rich men less lame. And she wanted so badly to be on the other side... to be fat and stupid and lame and rich. But what she couldn't see most of all, more than she couldn't see that she was never going to get the restaurant, was that those people were *nothing* compared to her. They were matches to her bonfire. She was the last cowboy, all romance and failure. The world was changing, and her kind didn't have anywhere to go. Being a beacon of hope for lesser people... is a lonely business.
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Written by Martin Cooper and Paul Humphreys
Performed by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Courtesy of Virgin Records Ltd.
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
Top review
"Mistress" Misses
I'm a big Noah Baumbach fan. He is completely able to come up with clever, simple, original ideas and make a usually great movie out of them; but to my dismay, Baumbach's "Mistress America" is a bit of a miss.
The story was very nice, but the writing's cheap/obvious execution ruins it. There is a famous saying that originates from Anton Chekhov that is commonly used in film schools: "show don't tell." This picture breaks that simple saying in almost all of its lines, as characters will just randomly blurt out how they feel - all while keeping a neutral look on their face.
Baumbach has also made a living out of his quick wit and intellectual humor, but unfortunately in "Mistress America," he decided to throw intellect out the window.
There are a few redeeming factors: its Woody Allen-esque use of camera-work, fitting choice of music, and easy to like characters.
Though it doesn't live up to his previous films, "Mistress America" should be watched by Baumbach fans. If you don't like him, you won't like this; and if you haven't seen his other work, I recommend you watch that instead.
The story was very nice, but the writing's cheap/obvious execution ruins it. There is a famous saying that originates from Anton Chekhov that is commonly used in film schools: "show don't tell." This picture breaks that simple saying in almost all of its lines, as characters will just randomly blurt out how they feel - all while keeping a neutral look on their face.
Baumbach has also made a living out of his quick wit and intellectual humor, but unfortunately in "Mistress America," he decided to throw intellect out the window.
There are a few redeeming factors: its Woody Allen-esque use of camera-work, fitting choice of music, and easy to like characters.
Though it doesn't live up to his previous films, "Mistress America" should be watched by Baumbach fans. If you don't like him, you won't like this; and if you haven't seen his other work, I recommend you watch that instead.
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- jacobcornblatt
- Aug 21, 2015
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,500,431
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $93,206
- Aug 16, 2015
- Gross worldwide
- $3,340,737
- Runtime1 hour 24 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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