Her mom (Linda Emond) is happy enough but vaguely nonplussed to see her her brother, an addict who seems either far away or long gone, is barely spoken of.Ī chance encounter at an auto-body shop with James ( Brian Tyree Henry) puts the first small crack in her closed-off exterior Lynsey remembers playing basketball in high school with his sister, and getting a beer or a Snow-Cone with him feels better than being anywhere else. She looks intact, but she needs intensive rehab before she can even begin to use the bathroom or drive a car on her own again by the time she's recovered enough to leave her temporary caregiver (a congenial Jayne Houdyshell) and go back home to New Orleans, it's clear that whatever trauma she's holding onto didn't all come from overseas. from Afghanistan after suffering a traumatic brain injury. Lawrence is Lynsey, a soldier sent back to the U.S. But the spare, contemplative drama Causeway feels in some ways like a return to her breakout role in the 2010 Sundance prize winner Winter's Bone: a movie largely stripped down to the unadorned essence of its material and the internalized pain of its characters. It's easy to forget sometimes that Jennifer Lawrence, an Oscar-winning movie star with two major franchises to her name in the last decade, started her career in indie film. Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry in Causeway (Apple) (Is that Abbott Elementary's Quinta Brunson as Oprah later on, and Lin-Manuel Miranda under those doctor's scrubs when things land in the emergency room? It is.) Radcliffe, bless him, commits admirably to the movie's full-tilt concept, conjuring a bizarro-world Al both brash and endearingly sincere (and disconcertingly CrossFit-ripped) he'll throw a man through a plate glass window and drink whiskey like it's water, but still come home to his parents' house for a chips-and-sandwich dinner. Demento ( Rainn Wilson) features Conan O'Brien, Jack Black, and countless other familiar faces playing everyone from Andy Warhol to Alice Cooper. A single pool-party scene hosted by Al's soon-to-be mentor Dr. Things move pretty fast in Weird - like Behind the Music smash-cut fast. Within moments, big Al ( Daniel Radcliffe), his hair a curly Bob Ross nimbus and his floral shirts every shade of Trader Joe's, is ruling the charts and christening all the bedrooms and ballrooms of his brand-new mansion with a rising pop tart named Madonna ( Evan Rachel Wood, who plays the singer as a blithe gum-snapping sociopath). He falls hard for polka, goes off to college, and finds his come-to-Jesus moment in a pile of processed lunchmeat when "My Sharona" becomes "My Bologna" a star is born, literally. Little Alfred (Richard Aaron Anderson) is just a kid who dreams of making music: other people's, specifically, but with goofier lyrics. This is whole-cloth fantasy, of course, and that's the point: less Walk the Line than Walk Hard, with accordions. What kind of fitting biopic would Weird: The Al Yankovic Story be if it played it straight? Eric Appel's directorial debut essentially plays like a movie-length Funny or Die sketch - which it is, technically (or at least produced under that production umbrella): a giddy cameo-stacked satire propelled by murder, mayhem, Mexican drug lords, and athletic sex with Madonna. Roku Weird Al Yankvoic (Daniel Radcliffe) and Madonna (Evan Rachel Wood) star in 'Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.'
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