Saturday, July 2, 2011

Nice Guy Johnny

Just when it looked like Ed Burns would wind up petering out his promising career as a filmmaker starring in an endless series of other people’s crappy movies (27 Dresses, One Missed Call), he falls back, regroups and delivers a fresh, funny and thoroughly enjoyable romantic comedy. It’s the story of a young guy with dreams of having his own sports talk show on the radio and the nearly disastrous weekend he spends with his kinda sleazy uncle (Burns). It’s not only written and directed by Burns, but the movie gives him the best role he’s had in a long, long time. Welcome back.

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