Peeples

Peeples may appropriate its entire premise and plot structure from “Meet the Parents,” but its heart is suffused with French cinema. Full Review

While Peeples follows a very predictable course as a romantic comedy and does not break any ground in that genre of filmmaking, this movie is more engaging than you might expect. Full Review

Tina Gordon Chism's film collapses into a series of clumsy improvisatory sketches, tied up in cheap, risibly sentimental catharsis. Full Review

Grier plays the part of the pompous patrician with superb finesse and dry wit, easily the movie's highlight. Full Review

Director Tina Gordon Chism, who also wrote the screenplay, seems to have relied pretty strongly on Perry for guidance. In particular, she rejects any notions of subtlety, either in the comedy or the weirdly heavy-handed messages about masculinity. Full Review