Now You Know
Now You Knowis a New Jersey comedy ushered into the world, appropriately enough, by Kevin Smith. Smith, however, didn't direct it and makes only a fleeting appearance as a favor to actor-director Jeff Anderson (Randall Graves in Smith'sClerkscomedies for film and television). Anderson, who also wrote the script, tells the tale here of Jeremy (Jeremy Sisto) and Kerri (Rashida Jones), who are supposed to be married one weekend until Kerri calls the whole thing off. Jeremy has no idea why, but he does know how difficult it is to tell all the revelers who have come to Jersey for the celebration. Meanwhile, Kerri's best friend Marty (Heather Paige Kent) offers great support to the former bride-to-be while struggling with an unexpected pregnancy. Jeremy's support, however, comes in theClerkstradition of paired losers, in this case inseparable buddies Gil (Anderson) and Biscuit (Trevor Fehrman fromClerks II). The film skips along as a succession of comic situations, some of which are inspired (Marty and Kerri visit a gay bar; Biscuit and Gil, who mow lawns for a living, moonlight as break-in pranksters who rearrange their victims' furniture), but others less so. Anderson's script rises from comic banality (the film opens on a mindless bachelor party) to wisdom (peace between the sexes). Not bad for a directorial debut.--Tom Keogh