GET A JOB Trailer
While watching the trailer for Get a Job, I actually found myself thinking about how young Anna Kendrick and Miles Teller looked. I initially chalked it up to excellent genetics, but then I read that the film was shot way back in 2012. It sat in the can for undisclosed reasons (not a good sign), and its director and writers haven’t had a single film credit since (really not a good sign). Still, I don’t believe in writing off movies without giving them a chance, so let’s focus in on some positives.
Here’s an obvious one: we’re talking about a film that stars Anna Kendrick, Miles Teller, Bryan Cranston, and Alison Brie. That’s pretty much a charm bomb waiting to go off, so it’s not like this film will be unwatchable. Even 2015’s train wreck Aloha worked moment-to-moment thanks to Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone, and that film had entire scenes that seemed out of sequence. Unless they magically edit the likability out of the leads, then Get a Job should be fine, and even if they do mess it up, then it will go down as a thorough lesson in how not to edit a movie.
Unluckily, the film’s plot about college graduates struggling to find work is still relevant today, as many young people must navigate unexpected periods of unemployment before they have a safety net. I went through a rough patch after college and found the whole situation rather depressing. Now that I have a career and a certain amount of financial security, that period seems even more terrifying. It’s hard enough to mourn for something that you were promised; it’s a whole other thing to get it and lose it.
It looks like Get a Job will play with this idea by contrasting the career starts of Kendrick and Teller’s characters, and as someone who went through this not long ago, I’m hoping they get at the nuance of the situation without ignoring just how privileged the problem is.
Get a Job is directed by Dylan Kidd and stars Anna Kendrick and Miles Teller. It will be released theatrically and on video on demand in the U.S. on March 25th, 2016. Other release dates are not currently known.
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