A talented cast and star-studded cameos can’t save this by-the-numbers film – bedeviled by canned music and sitcom sequences – about millennial job woes
One can’t ignore the irony around Get A Job’s huffing, last-place cross of the distribution finish line. One of the film’s main characters, played by Bryan Cranston, is a man with top notch qualifications on paper, but still can’t even land an interview with The Decisionmaker to gain employment. Shot in 2012 with a laundry list of talented actors (and a director, Dylan Kidd, who seemed off to a good start in 2002) Get A Job got caught up in corporate shuffles and looked for a while as if it would never be released. Now it limps to the marketplace on VOD and a contractually obligated single theatrical screen in New York. Sometimes merely being qualified isn’t enough.
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Get A Job’s problem is it doesn’t know if it wants to be a realistic look at millennials … or go for the cheap gag
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