‘She Came to Me’ Review: Anne Hathaway Shines in Well-Intentioned but Bland Relationship Drama
thewrap.comThe consistently disjointed ensemble dramedy “She Came to Me” never settles on a sensible tone to match its anxious, but well-meaning characters, most of whom are neither so ridiculous nor so tragic to be either laugh aloud funny or convincingly dramatic.Writer/director Rebecca Miller (“Maggie’s Plan”) celebrates her protagonists’ variable qualities with mixed results in this comedy of cringe-y errors, which follows two teenagers who get caught up in their high-strung parents’ romantic crises.
The movie’s older cast members, led by Peter Dinklage, Anne Hathaway, and Marisa Tomei, add some value to Miller’s lifeless scenario, which trails after Dinklage’s creatively blocked opera composer, his muse, and his elusive psychiatrist wife, played with typical poise by Hathaway.Miller struggles to capture some qualities that Dinklage, as panic attack-prone composer Steven, uses to describe the anti-heroic lead of his new opera.
Steven takes inspiration from Katrina (Tomei), a sardonic, but emotionally disturbed tugboat captain whom he bumps into at a Manhattan bar.
Steven then bases his opera’s lead on Katrina, whom he describes as having a “deadpan” way of expressing herself and a wry appreciation of life’s inherently “absurd” qualities.
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