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Saturday, April 18, 2020

Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019)

If you are looking for comedy, which is the tickler that the trailer leaves you with, you would be sorely mistaken.  This is a straight ahead drama, which is largely exactly what the title leads you to believe.  Brittany gets a wake up call at her first visit to a doctor in what we have to believe is quite some time.  She is a party girl who is seeking a prescription for Adderall, but what she gets is a wake up call.  Her weight makes her in the obese age range, and her drinking is puttting her live at risk.  When she gets a peak at what a gym membership will run her, she takes to the streets to run.
So while that is the sum total of the story line, there’s a surprising amount of nuance in Brittany’s story. The movie unpacks the emotional baggage of how society treats you differently when you're a plus size, how the scars of bad relationships past can pool up insecurity, and how endless self-loathing can curdle into an attitude that hurts everybody in your path.  Far from being just a simple comedy about fitness and weight loss, Brittany’s journey includes the healing and forgiveness it takes to really meet those goals.

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