Michael Parducci plays Alex as an urban bumpkin - a city boy whose ambition overrides a lifelong inferiority complex. His timid romance with Gwen develops on a predictable course, and his partnership with Elliot manages to score a few punch lines without being condescending toward either man. Livingston's major achievement is to discover humor in the humdrum business of writing fiction in tandem. He energizes the act of tapping out words on a keyboard, and finds punch lines in simple wordplay. But it's difficult to sustain the laugh level in a feature- length first film that has few new avenues to explore.
Unlikely partners write a movie script.