A woman is forced to relive Thanksgiving over and over again.
Yes, the premise of the film is similar to the Billy Murray classic GROUNDHOG DAY. This is a largely a series of replays of the big day. It's a film that takes the premise and bends it in some interesting ways. There is also some wickedly funny dialog and some great interplay.
The problem here is the script's structure is uneven. The film takes too long to set things up at the start with the result that Samantha Cevasco is not given anything to really do for about half of the film. Her role is simply doing things kind of machanically with all of her dialog focused on moving the narrative through Thanksgiving, and allowing everyone to be a character around her, but not create a character of her own. She is given so little to do that I wasn't sure if it was the script or that she was bad. The truth is that it's the script because once we get into the second half and in the final half hour she finally is allowed to actually do something.
I like the film, but as I said there are issues, but there are funny moments. Truthfully, I wish the film had a better start. That said there is enough here that if you are patient I think you might like this as well.
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