Another candy-apple red ride to the Mid-Life Crisis Invitational, Multiple Sarcasms is the antsy family man of indie films: Taking its capable, under-seen cast for granted, it blows the central character’s problems all out of proportion. Written and directed by first-timer Brooks Branch, the film presents the smoothly running life of architect Gabriel Richmond (Timothy Hutton) circa 1979, just as it begins to stall. “What if there’s no reason to feel sh*tty, but you do anyway?” he asks, setting up what seems like either a pointedly unpromising premise or an Abilify commercial. Back in the last days of disco, apparently, instead of consulting pharmacologists bored men became playwrights, in this case to underwhelming cinematic effect.
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REVIEW: Rookie Jitters, Half-Assed ’70s Sink Multiple Sarcasms
