I saw The Dead Girl with Colleen last night (in between her giving me clothes and her helping me shop for new clothes) and it was very intense. But it also had a couple of well-placed bits of comic relief which I really appreciated. This is the kind of movie that needs to spring an unexpected Josh Brolin sporting an "Eat shit and die" tattoo on you.
The film has a great cast with Piper Laurie (apparently reprising her role from Carrie) as the mother who has so fucked-up Toni Collette that when she meets creepy stock-boy Giovanni Ribisi (a guy who likes to make small talk by chatting about serial killers) even he has to take a step back and be like "Hey, you're kind of making me uncomfortable." It's also got Mary Steenburgen as the mother who believes her magical powers tell her that her daughter who has been missing for fifteen years is still alive and waiting for her to be found and Bruce Davison as the husband who's to polite/afraid to point out that his wife is completely off her rocker. James Franco turns in a brief, but awesome, performance as the guy who's trying just a little too hard to get laid (don't worry Francophiles, he had a little alcohol to help him seal the deal). But the star of the show was definitely Brittany Murphy. She's just so real and adorable and full of life and that makes it such a tragedy that she plays the eponymous role.
I need to go see 300 with Corey, so I'll just briefly point out that Marcia Gay Harden is starting to look a lot like Bruce McCulloch as Cathy with a C (or was he Kathy with a K? I really don't have time to fact check).
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