The Top 10 Highest-Profile Straight-to-DVD Releases
By Robert Sims, Special to Hollywood.com
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
9. Suburban Girl
The Big Losers: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alec Baldwin
Deservedly Dumped?: What’s a scream queen to do when she wants to stop screaming? Try, of course, to force us take her seriously. But no one’s paying much attention, given the nonchalant reception to The Air I Breathe, Southland Tales and this literate but obvious chick-lit romcom culled from Melissa Bank’s The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing. It doesn’t help that Gellar is merely adequate as an assistant book editor who finds a lover and mentor in oft-married publisher Alec Baldwin. Yes, it’s a little unsettling to watch the bearish Baldwin paw the still-girlish Gellar, but Suburban Girl does depict its May-to-December romance with care and sensitivity. And the 30 Rocker manages to provoke much fondness and compassion for a serial womanizer and recovering alcoholic who is his own worst enemy.
Stars: 2.5