True Romance Hav Plenty Directed and written by Christopher Scott Cherot With Chenoa Maxwell, Cherot, Tammi Catherine Jones, Robinne Lee, and Reginald James. I had a good time at Christopher Scott Cherot's Hav Plenty and Noah Baumbach's Mr. Jealousy both times I saw them, though I couldn't believe in either all the way through, and neither made me laugh out loud very often.
Plenty arrives in time for a small New Year's Eve get-together.
But it manages to tell us more about its varied cast of characters than most romantic comedies costing a hundred times as much. Noah Baumbach evoked some of the urbanity and self-consciousness of that milieu in his first feature, Kicking and Screaming , about four college graduates stumped about what to do with their lives. More significant in the long run is the fact that Lester gets accepted into the University of Iowa's graduate writing program but decides to ignore this option for a while. One of the limitations of Mr. Jealousy is that Dashiell proves to be more interesting than Lester, perhaps because the ubiquitous Stoltz projects too wholesome an image to register very convincingly as a troubled spirit. Who Shot Liberty Valance , another key cinematic reference point in Baumbach's movie.