‘Parachute’ Review: Life After Rehab In Brittany Snow’s Directing Debut – SXSW
20.03.2023 - 04:09
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There’s a lot going on in this troubled-girl-on-a-journey story, which recalls the late-’90s proliferation of books like Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Prozac Nation and Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted. Brittany Snow’s directing debut doesn’t so much add to that canon as dust it down a bit for a new generation, and its success is mostly attributable to its empathetic star Courtney Eaton — the deserving winner of a SXSW Special Jury Recognition for Performance — whose low-key work anchors a needlessly busy film that never quite settles down.
A lot is packed into the opening salvo, from the moment we see Riley (Eaton) sitting on the curb outside a forbiddingly nondescript building, scrolling through pages and pages of narcissistic Instagram influencers. It will come as no surprise when we find out, shortly after that, that she’s been in for a fairly serious disorder she’ll describe variously as “an eating thing” and “body stuff”, but that doesn’t stop her best friend from insisting they go out for a mutual’s party night. This is where Riley meets the scruffy, non-threatening Ethan (Thomas Mann), a music A&R man who used to be in a hipster band called (of course!) Neon Porches. “2017 Brooklyn gold!” enthuses Riley, who turns out to be a fan.
Can Riley get over her ex, deal with her body-image anxiety and go steady with Ethan, who is just out of stir himself following a brief custodial sentence for vandalism? The program she’s on says that she’s not to date anyone for a year, but Riley throws all caution to the wind and sort-of dates Ethan on a friends-with-benefits basis.
Things seem to improve for her when she gets a job with a murder-mystery dinner theatre company that is run by Bryce (played by Dave Bautista, who pops up in a
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