Girl Walks Into a Bar

2011 "One night, ten bars, lots of mayhem."
5.6| 1h20m| R| en
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A sharp-witted comedy that follows a group of apparent strangers in interlocking stories taking place in ten different bars during the course of one evening throughout Los Angeles.

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Rijndri Load of rubbish!!
GurlyIamBeach Instant Favorite.
Beulah Bram A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
Phillida Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.
Voyou Nobodysbusiness A series of vignettes that, for the most part, don't converge. Fair enough. We are here essentially to enjoy fast-paced dialogues, with a dancing or singing scene here and there. Unfortunately, a lot of the dialogue just feels like a filler, i.e., it's irrelevant, uninteresting, unsatisfying. Plus, it never is funny. All of this despite solid performances from a few actors with great screen presence.About my rating, this movie loses 3 or 4 stars in just one minute, when the director pretends to amuse us with a scene full of naked people, only to fill the screen with floating black rectangles. Well, either you show or you don't show, mr. director. Now I'm aware of both your demagogy and spinelessness; an half-assed con artist you are. Being used to the censorship of various countries, I wastes additional time checking if I was insulted by some local laws, or by you. What I found doesn't make you look good, Mr Gutierrez, not good at all. You can keep losing face, but without me, because from now I doubt I'll ever watch anything you make.
jotix100 The classic start of many a joke serves as an able introduction for this film, conceived and directed by Sebastian Gutierrez. Shot in different bars in the Los Angeles area, the film has a whimsical feeling as characters move in and out of the different vignettes that tell a story in an original fashion. Red is the color that predominates the decoration in most of these bars.Carla Gugino, who has worked with the director before, is Emit, basically the main character in the story. She a former police woman who shows up at the start of the film to talk to a despondent dentist who wants to have his wife killed. The agreed price is not exactly what the men had in mind, but he promises to get it. In the bar Emit meets a young man who proceeds to steal her wallet and her tape recorder.What follows is Emit's voyage through about a dozen bars trying to get her belongings, but in the process, she discovers a few quirky characters with bizarre stories of their own. There is a hilarious sequence involving a nude ping pong club where the dentist's wife has been going to see the man she has fallen for. The film ends with Emit and some new made friends dancing.The cast is excellent. Carla Gugino excels as Emit. Veteran Robert Forster shows up as a man who has been released that day from prison. Emmanuel Chriqui is a pole dancer in a stripper bar. Danny Devito has a small part as a criminal who will lend the dentist the money. Rosario Dawson, Josh Harnett, Amber Valetta, Zachary Quinto and the rest of the supporting players do a good job for Mr. Gutierrez.
s_imdb-18-540293 Characters drink like one whiskey per minute (I'm not exaggerating), and nobody gets drunk. Bars are always completely empty but there's always some show on. The main story is nice but it's 10 minutes long. Lots of weird characters, but hey, who cares? What's the point of all this. You can look at Emmanuelle Chriqui, maybe you can get to the end without feeling you have wasted 1 hours 19 minutes. The silly western dance dury the end titles is the best part of the movie. Nice atmosphere and images overall, but I would have preferred watching a movie. I don't know what to say again but I have to continue writing IMDb says. Like writing things using more words makes something better... This policy of IMDb reminds me of this movie, it would have been good if it was a 20 minutes short film.
Alex Plot: Francine Driver (Carla Gugino) is an undercover cop whom, posing as an assassin meets with a potential client, Nick (Zachary Quinto), in a Los Angeles bar late one night. After mild ambivalence, Nick confesses to her that he wishes his wife dead. She agrees to the arrangement if she is met with twenty thousand dollars. Nick admits he does not have the money on him currently, but promises by the end of the night he will. After his eventual departure, Francine is acquainted with a young man, Henry (Aaron Tveit), whom after certain particular charms, steals her wallet, leaving her there in the bar alone as he leaves unnoticed. Francine's wallet contains the recorded evidence that will incriminate Nick and put him behind bars.It is then that Francine's night truly begins as she attempts to hunt down Henry and locate her missing wallet. Her search takes her through a series of local bars in Los Angeles and not one is without an introduced character whom in some fashion, as part of the ensemble cast, is connected to another character throughout—aforementioned or no. Each character as well has their own, unique, story to tell and of course, life in which they live.Part of a Whole: While it cannot be argued that Francine is essentially the film's catalyst guised as a major character, she does in all actuality, share almost equivalent time on screen with the rest of the cast (Danny DeVito, Josh Hartnett, Zachary Quinto, Aaron Tveit, Rosario Dawson, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Robert Forster, etcetera). As Francine's night unfolds the viewer discovers the life of each individual is linked to that of another and not one is any more or less relevant than the other.However, not each character is entirely interesting. In fact, each is nearly forgettable. The performances themselves however are well-rounded, though again, nothing too spectacular. Gugino and Quinto hold the most notoriety here.Pen and no Sword: Writer and director Sebastian Gutierrez has a script here that is void of any real climatics or action in any degree. Instead the film is progressed through exchanges of dialogue encompassing a colorful variety of topics. These passings are often sharp, quick, full of wit, and allegedly carry some purpose or message.While the lines are delivered with expertly dry candor, the point of these encounters isn't quite explained with any real clarity. There are exceptions in which such story-telling is acceptable, and most often successful, but here these characters are faulted, one by one, from their enigmatic origins. Nor is it with any great care that these characters either individually or together develop. So separate from compassion is the viewer that he or she is merely a spectator to the lives of these individuals rather than a partaking guest.That said, the dialogue is as fun as one might expect from a film so heavily cast in it. There are as well, sequences which are as memorable as they are well-directed. Again, this is perhaps, alone, ten to twenty minutes of this hour and twenty minute feature.Hope for the Little Guy – A Picture in 7D: It is immediately apparent that the film is shot on a SLR camera and this is undoubtedly the most admirable, if not hopeful, aspect of the film itself. Shot for the purpose of free distribution via internet streaming service, YouTube, the use of Canon's 7D SLR camera is a light for all aspiring filmmakers no matter the level of education received or field of preference.Girl Walks Into A Bar has an abundance of Hollywood names attached to its likeness all standing under the lovely iridescence of bar-light, affront a piece of equipment any hard working artist can so willingly afford. One's own fantasy of shooting a feature film with the prominent actors of Hollywood, on say one's very own T2i, appears all the more livable.The cinematography is an agreeable mix of color and perspective angles. It as well displays with triumphant circulation the power of SLR cameras and too their endless capability.One Sentence Summary: Shot on Canon's 7D over the course of an eleven day period, the sharp witted Girl Walks Into A Bar is by no standards consistent with an amateur production and while it certainly gives hope to young, penniless, filmmakers, it does suffer from lack of a purposeful identity.