He angrily confronts Gary, who accuses him of being no fun anymore. Returning to his hotel room, Perry is enraged to find his room filled with strangers. Jake tells him that he seems confused in his actions when he reveals that he has already consulted Karen on the matter, Perry leaves, feeling betrayed. In his absence, his drummer Gary (Fred Armisen) excitedly invites a stripper and many others into the hotel room.Īfter receiving scornful comments from his wife's parents about his lack of ambition in life, Perry returns to work to fetch Salome's guitar accidentally, he interrupts a meeting with Jake's lawyer discussing a removal of Perry from the family business, citing his father's will. After purchasing the room for the day, he calls his old bandmates just after they arrive, Perry is reminded by his wife that he must let his in-laws into the house that he forgot about. ![]() Soon after, Perry rents the presidential suite from the pristine no-nonsense owner (Brian Baumgartner), who firmly reminds him that the hotel has a strict "no-party" policy. She reveals she is now a manager for Joan Jett, who is performing in New York that night. While waiting to rent a room, Perry runs into Christy (Judy Greer), an old girlfriend of his when he was in the band. Perry eventually finds a nice hotel where he plans to throw a reunion party for his band. Upset for him, Jake gives Perry the day off and $1000 to do whatever he wishes to, hopeful that giving him a day to relax will allow him to overcome what has been causing his apathy. His brother chastises him on his constant lethargy at work until Perry reveals to him that his family forgot his birthday. After picking up his daughter's new guitar his wife picked out for her, Perry arrives at work at his family's hardware store where his younger brother Jake (Chris Messina) has accepted the main responsibility. On his 40th birthday, the same day as his daughter's talent show, Perry is disappointed to notice that nobody has remembered his birthday. Forced to accept his new life, Miller reluctantly lives his grown-up lifestyle as a father of two with his hard-working lawyer wife Karen (Selma Blair), his talented guitar-playing daughter Salome (Madisyn Shipman) and his newborn child. His band gives a brief interview before they play their song " Devil's Kind".Ģ0 years later, Perry and his band have parted. In 1995, Perry Miller (Billie Joe Armstrong) performs in New York with his punk band known as The Skunks. " Ordinary World" went on to appear on Green Day's twelfth studio album Revolution Radio, while " Body Bag", " Devil's Kind" and " Fever Blister" were released by Billie Joe's side-project The Longshot. Filming began late 2014 in New York City. ![]() Dickon Hinchliffe composed the majority of the film's score, while Billie Joe wrote four original songs for the soundtrack: "Devil's Kind", "Ordinary World", "Body Bag", and "Fever Blister". Ginzburg and Tony Lee serving as producers on the film. boo.In November 2014, it was announced that Billie Joe Armstrong, Judy Greer, Fred Armisen, Selma Blair, Dallas Roberts, Chris Messina and Brian Baumgartner had joined the cast of the film, with Lee Kirk directing from a screenplay he wrote, and Tim Perell, Alex A. ![]() Of course given the apathetic, slacker demeanor they overplayed in Billy Joe's character, maybe that was the intention? "Just like the main character we're too apathetic to finish anything we start." Anyway. This one left me with 2/3 and I truly felt empty at the end denied the 1/3 of the movie they were too lazy to shoot. A movie I expect to at least shove me through the Premise > Conflict > Resolution cycle. If I want to watch someone be cranky about their 40th birthday while bemoaning the rock star life they could have had, I have plenty of real life friends to watch do that. There were all sorts of possibilities and various situations that were prepped for exploration all left unsatisfied. Most of the movie, although there are things I would have done differently, I was enjoying myself and it seemed like it was heading a good direction. After all, I know a lot of people in his situation (not that far off myself) so I was at least hoping for some familiarity feels especially since Billy Joe's in the movie so he'd bring the role some realism. I thought the movie looked interesting which is why I watched it.
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