BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The Couchpotatoes 6 balloons is about Kathy (played by Abbi Jacobson) finding out that her brother Seth (played by Dave Franco) has relapsed in his heroin addiction and this just before organizing a birthday party for her husband. It's a believable drama about dealing with a junkie in the family. Well almost believable. You can see his suffering while going cold turkey and her suffering with the dilemma between helping her brother score drugs or bringing him to a rehabilitation center instead. The suffering is believable, but for a hardcore junkie they could have said something about the constant lying, about the stealing, and about the physical signs of deterioration due to addiction. He looked well to clean to pass as a heroin addict. The acting was good, the story also, but it could have used a bit more drama to me to make it more real. Good enough to watch once though.

ialtman88 True this hits home in dealing with someone who has an addiction, I think there was too much emphasis on making this a "beautiful" movie and not enough on the plot. The voiceover of the audiobook, the random close ups (Jacobson's chin???), and the constant blank stare acting (like Katie staring into the distance with her mouth open) made the pacing very slow. I was prepared to be reaching for tissues but I felt surprisingly little emotion (little...not none). I really just wish it was better but overall I was disappointed.

ymunoz1989 I am very picky with the indie genre because there's usually not much going on. And sometimes, writers try to be so "artistic" that there is no moral to the story, so it just blatantly stinks. This movie, though... It hit home. My brother, who is my best friend, is an addict. Throughout the film, I found myself relating to the main character and her relationships with the people around her, including her brother. Dave Franco is a great actor, just like his brother. He did spectacular. He portrayed his character so well. I'm usually used to seeing him in comedies. It just goes to show how great he is that he can play a more serious roll brilliantly as well.

Izzy The reason why I got really excited about this movie was because I hadn't ever seen a movie where Dave Franco had actually done a great job, I think this is his best role yet, out of all his films I have seen which really aren't even competition. It also just looked different and special. I had been having a bit of a difficult time trying to find a good movie to watch on Netflix that actually looked worthwhile to me, when I heard this was coming out and I saw the trailer, it looked really interesting and was hoping for something good, I got that in a way, but it was definitely underwhelming overall, was expecting a lot more story-wise at least even if i didn't get much acting, I could have at least been satisfied with a compelling story with a satisfying character through it, really, there could have been more personality with these characters, but I definitely think Abbi Jacobson did a good job with her character.Though most of the films believability and sustenance came from Abbi Jacobson's performance, Dave Franco did give some personality and charisma to the film through his character and did feel grounded in the world and in the story making it easier for me to believe in these characters and their struggle in the situations they are in. He also did a good job with how he portrayed Seth overall. I could see the type of person he was and what they were trying to go for with his character and it didn't feel too unfocused and generic to the point where there was no character but just Dave Franco playing Dave Franco, there were a few of those moments in the film but not enough to completely ruin the good parts where I felt he was really trying to add something different and give something new to Seth. To my surprise he managed to make the relapse scenes believable, and incredibly uncomfortable and disturbing (which was the idea I felt) which I didn't feel he would be able to do, a tall order for an actor who, sadly isn't really known for his ability to act convincingly and to a varied enough degree to be great, but he surprised me with his performance in this. The general vibe of the film to me was what kept me going at times that made me really made me want to stop watching, it felt very raw and real and I liked the way the film was structured overall, didn't feel too in your face about the whole thing, and kept things on a comfortable level, didn't overdo it in a way that would have ruined what it was trying to go for.To me, Katie's struggle to manage everything around her is I think a general thing that helped made me empathise with her, the idea of a character having a grounded personal struggle underneath everything that's happening was interesting as I thought that the entire film would just be her trying to help her brother, therefore not allowing us to really get a look into her character, but it was quite the opposite, especially with the voiceover element which i thought was a great addition to the story, a clever way for us as the audience to let us into her state of mind and to understand the situation from her perspective without being too on the nose and not being too abstract to be completely pointless. I liked the cinematography in this film, it looked great and there were some good moments of great camera work while there were some bad ones, but not enough to really be a significant negative for the film. Some parts of it definitely felt clumsy and not really clear but overall I understood what it was going for and I enjoyed it. It was a refreshing movie that i enjoyed and I didn't feel like I had wasted my time watching it, I am glad I did because it is a good movie with an interesting narrative and has unique feeling to it. TL:DR: uneventful and undeveloped overall, awkward editing decisions and camera work at points, but has some clever and interesting imagery and underlying themes, has a few great moments of emotional depth, has some good acting and two good main characters I could follow and empathise with, and is sophisticated in its approach and delivery. Would recommend.6.1/10