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Director: Chris Bradley, Kyle LaBrache
Starring: Annabelle Gurwitch
You have to admire the imagination of documentary makers who can take all kinds of experiences, and come up with the idea for a feature. In this case, Annabelle Gurwitch wrote and starred in this mildly interesting look at the sour, rejecting experience of being fired. There are a few funny spots, but the overall effect is uneven, and I wasn’t disappointed to find that it was only around a hour long. Is that a good sign?
Writer and star, Annabelle Gurwitch starts out with the tale of her own dismissal at the hands of no other than the neurotic, drama king of New York City, himself, Woody Allen. From here, she goes on to interview all kinds of people from ordinary to the mildly famous about their own dismissal experiences, and takes us to some stand up routines about being canned. This film also marks the first time that I have seen a puppet show on a documentary. Well, there’s a first time for everything they say, though I’m still waiting to grow a second head so I have someone intelligent to talk to.
Fired is a short and mildly amusing feature that doesn’t take itself too seriously, but I think that there better ways to spend 70 minutes.
