Her performance helps create the movie’s essential whiplashes of fantasy meeting reality.
Sulewski plays into both “Becca” exaggerations so thoughtfully, that by the third act her actual Becca has a special poignancy and agency-a kind server at a Maine restaurant who has been brought into a disturbing family mess, and also has had her identity stolen. Her character can sometimes be an avatar for Oswalt, saying his words in her own voice with great comic timing in other lenses she is an all-game fantasy for Franklin (at one point walking on the water of swimming pool).
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This approach makes its awkward comedy all the more visceral, like when Franklin wants to text-kiss “Becca” we see what a wincing Chuck is feeling, as his son Franklin appears in the room, starry-eyed and ready to lock lips.Īll of this is to say that the comic MVP of this movie is not Oswalt, or even actor/writer/director Morosini, but Claudia Sulewski. With key intercuts that play like punchlines-without getting redundant-we remember the truth behind these moments of comforting fantasy for both the son and the father. Morosini’s cold state instantly warms up as “Becca” (his projection of her) cuddles close, speaking the fumbling, sometimes sincere words from Chuck behind his laptop and phone.
The movie visualizes the intimacy of a fluttery text session as if they were dates happening in-person, as daydreams coming true during a long-distance relationship. There’s a sneaky savviness to this story that wants to see how far it can take this scenario, and it comes in depicting the conversations. With Oswalt's sensitivity as an actor, a character who proves to be a liar, avoidant, invasive, and so very manipulative still becomes watchable. Without playing the grossness or darkness too obviously, Oswalt shows the desperation within Chuck to be back in his son's life he also is able to (mostly) sell the film’s digs at Chuck’s clumsy understanding of modern technology and chat lingo. While the movie never excuses Chuck’s horrific sense of boundaries, or of being a bad dad for so long, Oswalt’s performance nudges us that maybe this is indeed the time when Chuck is ready to be a more present father, which makes catfishing his son all the more tragic. Patton Oswalt plays the version of Morosini’s father with great heart, as he has for other complicated loners (“ Young Adult,” “ Big Fan”) and it’s one of the comedian’s very best performances in a film. But on the other side of the screen, Becca is actually Chuck, and “Becca”’s pictures have been stolen from a kind diner server named Becca ( Claudia Sulewski) that once told a teary Chuck that "talking to people's a good start." He quickly develops an online crush he wants to travel from Massachusetts to Maine and meet her. But Becca seems real enough in how she talks, and the attention and care she provides Franklin is flattering, comforting. Not long after Franklin gets home, he receives a friend request from a woman named Becca who lives in Maine he accepts the request with some hesitation, as she has no other online friends. He’s awkward and a bit anti-social, and he’s estranged from his father Chuck after years of serious let-downs. Writer/director Morosini plays himself in the situation, as a young man named Franklin who has just left rehab after living through a suicide attempt. Read more stories like this by liking Atlanta Restaurant Scene on Facebook, following on Twitter and on Instagram. RELATED: Explore More DeKalb County dining news Explore More metro Atlanta restaurant closures
In October 2007, Atherholt sold Crescent Moon to Global Restaurant Group LLC and the restaurant closed in 2007. In 1995, he sold the concept to Rob Atherholt, who changed the name to Crescent Moon and moved it a block up the street, where it remained for more than a decade. In 1984, Thumbs Up founder Lou Locricchio opened the first Thumbs Up Diner on West Ponce de Leon Avenue. Longtime Decatur residents will likely be familiar with the Decatur Thumbs Up location’s history. There are remaining Thumb Up locations in Old Fourth Ward, East Point, Douglasville, West Midtown and Roswell. The letter is signed, “Wesley, Lisa, Mark, Richard, Craig and the rest of the Thumbs Up staff.” Unfortunately, it’s too late for us but you may be able to save other local businesses.” We urge everyone to use their voices to protest the rising rents in this area.
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