Review of Leading Ladies on Denveater.com
Local blog Denveater.com recently included Leading Ladies in their “Dinner and a Movie” post wherein several narrative features and shorts from the 33rd Starz Denver Film Festival were paired with various restaurants around the city. We were teamed up with Beatrice & Woodsley. I love the restaurant’s interior, but I’m not quite sure how the chainsaw themed “woodsy” establishment got paired with Leading Ladies.
Nonetheless, the blog post spawned one of my favorite reviews of LL to date:
I spent the first 5 minutes thinking this was going to be a corny, overacted piece of crap. I spent the remaining 97 totally enchanted by an adorably campy, smart, wholly original romantic comedy/musical.
The film’s co-writer Jen Bechtel wrote:
Yeah, first impressions are tough for this one, because Sheri starts things off and Sheri is a person who overacts her life (at least initially), so it takes a moment to realize that Melanie is absolutely spot on.
As I posted on our Facebook page:
Yeah, the first five minutes is an adjustment period for the average viewer, but once you’re in, I think the rest of the review is a fair assessment (even if I AM a little biased). [smile] Campy? Sure. But also tender and thoughtful, and you don’t often get that combo. We’ve had a couple people let us know that if Sheri wasn’t campy (if she were more “real”), you’d actually hate her, and that would take the fun out of the film.
…we meet people ALL THE TIME who are waaaay more over the top than Sheri. She’s crazy, but those people are out there and we all know one (or more)! Melanie does a FANTASTIC job being Sheri, and we LOVE her for it.
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