‘Sick Girl’ Review: Warning – Nina Dobrev’s Ailing Cancer “Comedy” May Be Harmful To Your Health
deadline.comIf you are going to do a so-called “hilarious” comedy dealing with cancer you better know how to do it. Unfortunately, writer/director Jennifer Cram, for her first feature film in those jobs, does not knock it out of the park.
Sick Girl which stars Nina Dobrev as Wren, a bit of a mess of a 30ish woman whose spur-of-the-moment little white lie about having cancer spirals out of control, would need a satirist along the lines of an Adam McKay to actually pull off this misbegotten comedy which is simply more cringe-inducing than funny, and Cram, whose previous work has been in Casting just can’t find the right tone to make it work.
The premise may have sounded good on paper but it quickly turns into a one-joke idea stretched way beyond its worth. Lionsgate is opening this Friday day and date in theatres and VOD, the latter where it likely will go to die itself.
Opening with a flashback to better times and younger days, we meet a seemingly inseparable quartet of BFF girls in their carefree days of teendom.
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