2006 · romance · comedy
Bottoms Up
Directed by Erik MacArthur1h 29m2006
Small-town bartender Owen Peadman goes to Los Angeles to raise money to help save his father's Minnesota restaurant. He tries to find a way into Hollywood society, where he meets socialite Lisa and her uptight actor boyfriend. Can he balance his growing feelings for Lisa with surviving the sordid lifestyles of the Hollywood elite?
Our read: Bottoms Up (2006) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded romance · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle romance / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- intimate
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