If you can get all worked up about a somewhat aggressive little bird that, to the annoyance of homeowner Melissa McCarthy, has decided to take up residence in a tree on her property, you’re welcome…
and if something like this this is now considered worthy of a major festival slot, the world has changed. Can we blame Covid for this too?Working in a stylistic vein that might be described as bumptious sentimentality, screenwriter Matt Harris can virtually be detected pushing the emotional buttons behind a curtain much like a 21st century Wizard of Oz. It cannot be denied that selecting little starlings as the big villains of your story is a novel choice; no crows they.
Employing a very wide brush and mawkish musical backgrounding, Melfi tells the story of a middle-aged couple who have recently lost a baby. McCarthy is 51 and the script oddly never mentions whether or not her character, Lilly Maynard, had been attempting to bear a child for years or only recently became motivated. Her somewhat younger husband, grade-school art teacher Jack , is nothing but supportive.
The couple lives in a very comfortable inherited house in a small northern California town where Lilly works as a convenience store clerk. But she’s beginning to lose her grip. The couple’s main outings are to group therapy sessions at a mental health facility. What’s bugging Lilly more than anything these days are the obnoxious starlings that have made themselves at home on her property.
Sound exciting so far? Well, just you wait. Along with now putting on a football helmet whenever she dares to go outside, Lilly decides she needs to consult a shrink about the bird invasion and enlists the assistance of a therapist, Dr. Larry Fine . One’s hopes are momentarily aroused that a sharp-witted outsider might cut through the treacle and b.s. surrounding the matter of the invasive starlings.
Still battling those pesky little starlings, klutzy Lilly one day picks up a stone, hits a flying bird dead-on and presents the good doctor with proof. The big third act suspense hinges upon whether the injured winged one can be saved, which, in a relativistic sort of way, will suggest whether or not this blighted couple might also find its way back to a productive life. Quel symbolism.
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