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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