Sacramento

While worrying frantically about everything, including his far more stable wife Rosie (Kristen Stewart) about to give birth to their first child, Glenn (Michael Cera) gets an unexpected visit from his estranged childhood best-friend Rickey (Sky High's Michael Angarano who also wrote and directed the film). What follows is a quirky comedy with Rosie more than happy to see Glenn go for a road trip weekend with Rickey ending up in Sacramento, although not for the reasons Rickey initially offers.

Cera is doing his usual awkward uncertainty schtick here with Angarano nearly equally needy and annoying was the more flamboyant, but always deflecting, Rickey who often ends up in a war of words (and sometimes fists) with Glenn. Odds are one or both may get on your nerves before the end of the film. However, by the end, the journey they take together (especially once the other shoe drops for Rickey's story which will tie back to the film's opening scene) offers an enjoyable indie take on the man-child buddy comedy that shies away from most cliches including giving us Stewart in a memorable, if small, role as the pregnant woman with everything together worried more about her husband's state of mind than her impending delivery date.

The cast is filled out by Maya Erskine, AJ Mendez, Iman Karram, and Rosalind Chao. Each has some unique interactions with Rickey, some more positive than others, showing off aspects of the character in ways we don't always see in his interactions with Glenn. It's the friendship between the pair, one that Glenn is reluctant to acknowledge at the beginning of the film, where Sacramento remains primarily focused. As annoying as each of them can be, filled with similar fears about adulthood and big changes to their lives like impending fatherhood, it's hard to argue that the pair don't ultimately need and deserve each other.

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• Title: Sacramento
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