Finding Amanda — This Summer
Solid love stories can touch every heart and so can family dramas. Peter Tolan’s movie is produced by Wayne Rice and Mark Benton Johnson and is set to release this summer. The movie has a rich cast and stars Matthew Broderick as Taylor Peters, Brittany Snow as Amanda, Bill Fagerbakke as Larry and Peter Facinelli as Greg.
Finding Amanda details the life of Taylor Peters, a television writer and producer working on a low-rated, little-respected half-hour sitcoms. Peters could have occupied higher positions, if he had stopped gambling and using drugs. However, Peters realizes his mistakes and does his best to keep his wife Lorraine in the dark about his job.
But like any another lie, Peters’s couldn’t last longer. On their way to Las Vegas to visit Peters’s niece Amanda, Lorraine finds racing stubs in the glove compartment, and decides to leave her husband of several years. Peters has nothing else but to vow himself that he won’t gamble a cent, however, all of her attempts to win back Lorraine’s affections and to have her back turn to be in vain.
Cinematical reports that Finding Amanda goes from stupid silly to real serious in a matter of seconds.
The director should have picked up on these wacky tonal shifts and he should have found a way to get more out of his talent, or at least guide them in the right direction. It’s too bad, because this was a film I was really looking forward to — and, in the right hands, Finding Amanda might have been a pretty slick dark comedy about redemption in the city of sin. However, unfortunately, this is one film I wouldn’t take a gamble on.
Before the movie is released, here is its official trailer.