Dark Horse (2012)

A maladjusted, self pitying, immature 30 something man (Jordan Gelber) still lives at home with his parents (Mia Farrow, Christopher Walken) while working at his father's company. When he meets a manic depressive failed writer (Selma Blair, LEGALLY BLONDE) who's moved back in with her parents, he asks her to marry him in a last bid to get a life. Bouncing around the film festival circuit in late 2011, Todd Solondz's DARK HORSE is finally getting a theatrical (albeit limited) release. It's a dark and twisted, at times near offensive, black comedy and I quite liked it. "Losers" are rarely the leading character in films and if they are at all, by the final reel they've got their act together so audiences can go home happy. Solondz doesn't play that game. This is a quirky, witty perverse film but make no mistake about it. You'll laugh but it's still a total downer. Gelber's spiteful, rude whiner is such a repugnant character that it's hard to embrace him and I suspect some moviegoers will be so off-put by his character that they'll throw the baby out with the bath water. With Donna Murphy (in an award worthy performance), Zachary Booth and Justin Bartha.