‘American Dreamer’ Film Review: Peter Dinklage Real-Estate Comedy Requires Major Repairs
thewrap.comsurprise, after the two have barely shared a few drinks and a roll in the hay. We have hardly seen her, and Melfi already paints this grown woman as immature and delusional.
Clare is far from Phil’s only female problem. Maggie (Kim Quinn, “The Starling”), one of Astrid’s children, is an attorney specializing in estate law, who seeks to nullify the property sale by claiming Astrid has dementia.
Though this pairing makes even less sense, Maggie and Phil also wind up in bed together. It’s only a matter of time before the matronly Astrid comes on to him as well.
Dinklage can be an absolute charmer — although he’s certainly not in “Cyrano” mode here — but at one point, one begins to wonder if Melfi is capable of writing about a man and a woman without arbitrarily tossing them into a sexual situation.
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