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DON’T THINK TWICE (R)
When a member of a popular New York City improv troupe gets a huge
break, the rest of the group - all best friends - start to realize that
not everyone is going to make it after all. Written & Directed by Mike
Birbiglia and Produced by Ira Glass.
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INDIGNATION (R)
In1951, a working class Jewish student from NJ attends a small Ohio
college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffec-
tion, amid the ongoing Korean war. Based on Philip Roth’s novel.
1:00, 6:00
CAPTAIN FANTASTIC (R)
Deep in the forests of the Pacifi c Northwest, a father (Viggo Mortensen)
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education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, challeng-
ing his idea of what it means to be a parent.
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FUNNY GAMES
Mike Birbiglia’s Don’t Think Twice follows the
interpersonal workings of a fictional improv troupe
D
on’t Think Twice, Mike Birbiglia’s second feature (following Sleepwalk With
Me), starts with the rules of improv comedy. One of the rules: It’s all about the
group. If you break that rule, everything falls apart. Even — or especially — if
you break it by attaining the success every member wants.
Birbiglia’s fictional troupe is the Commune, a six-person team with a solid
run at a fictional New York venue. Miles (Birbiglia), who taught some of his colleagues,
is still holding out for his shot at Weekend Live, the movie’s version of SNL. Bill (Chris
Gethard), the quiet one, is still in the shadow of his very different father. Sam (Gillian
Jacobs) and Jack (Keegan-Michael Key) are a couple; they riff off each other everywhere,
comfortable and cozy. Allison (Kate Micucci) and Lindsay (Tami Sagher) are less
developed, but Allison draws charming cartoons and Lindsay smokes a lot of pot and lives
with her parents. It’s believable.
And it all starts to wobble when Jack and Sam score auditions for Weekend Live.
Birbiglia traces the bitterness and the hopes that pass from teammate to teammate, whether
it’s Miles’ resentment that the student has eclipsed the teacher or Bill and Allison’s quiet
focus on their writing. (A tragedy plot runs in the background, giving the movie a chance
to show just how much these people love each other, even if they can’t always be happy
for each other.)
Miles, who is still sleeping with students and living in the Commune’s, uh, communal
house, gets a lot of screen time and a little more plot than he needs; the movie’s single
off note is Liz, the old friend with whom Miles reconnects. Liz is barely a character, just
a combination of Eat Pray Love and that Sex and the City episode where Carrie scoffs at
a twentysomething’s apartment — and her presence in the story is frustratingly all about
Miles.
But balancing that is Gillian Jacobs’ thoughtful, sweet, honest performance as Sam.
It’s hard to talk about how good Jacobs is in this role without spoiling the movie’s greatest
pleasures, but there is a moment when Sam winds up onstage alone, and what she does with
that bare stage — the way she takes it and makes it hers, just hers, no need for rescue or
help or saving — is transcendent.
The Commune is indeed a team, but Birbiglia’s movie gets at something deeper than
just the magic of a performer’s stage family: the way each person on that team has his or
her own rhythm. Sometimes they sync up, and sometimes they all fall out of step with each
other (though never onstage). Through the arguments and the sadness and the jealousy,
Don’t Think Twice remains a quietly jubilant film, celebrating the way improv makes
something — a laugh, a family, a partnership, a career — out of nothing.
We might hate it when our friends become successful, but that doesn’t mean we hate
the friends themselves. (Opens Friday, Aug. 26, at Bijou Art Cinemas) — Molly Templeton