mumblecore

The film genre called mumblecore is hit or miss: Mutual Appreciation is lovely, while Hannah Takes the Stairs is unwatchable. Baghead is a hit. Co-written and -directed by the Duplass brothers (Mark played one of Hannah’s boyfriends in HTtS), it is set not in Brooklyn or Chicago but LA (though it appears to have been filmed in Texas) and it features four wannabe actors who repair to a cabin in the woods for the weekend to write a screenplay starring themselves. Fat funny guy likes pretty ingenue, who in turn likes the older cool guy with Elvis hair, who is sleeping with aging bombshell but wants to sleep with ingenue as well but promises fat funny guy he won’t.