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Monday, November 12, 2018

Life of the Party (2018)

My only defense for watching this start to finish is that I was on an international flight.  Melissa McCarthy plays a forties something woman who dropped out of school her senior year of college to have a baby, who, coincidentally, is also now a senior.  As they drop her off at school and are supposedly heading off for a month in Italy, her husband tells her that not only is he leaving her, he is taking his mistress on the Italian holiday and by the way, he is selling the house as well.
Instead of getting outraged and a good lawyer to fight this ridiculous appropriation of community property, all the while cleaning out the joint bank account so that she can survive in the meantime, she instead crawls under the virtual covers, only to arrive at the idea that she should have a do over on her senior year, and that she should share it with her daughter.  Which would be most college senior's idea of an out and out nightmare, but the daughter and her friends are incredibly warm and welcoming, and the coming of age of an already grown woman plays out in front of the only child.  It is not good.

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