Krishna
Starts really cute. Does it retain its cuteness all the way through? Let us see.
Marcus watches his mom break up with yet another boyfriend, Roger, and does not understand why they argued or even what they argued about.
In the meanwhile Marcus hates to go to school but has to, nevertheless. Will, on the other hand, dates a woman with children. She is very pretty and he straightens up his life for her. But she leaves him and he finds a ‘career’ in dating single mothers and being a ‘nice guy’. Marcus does not fit in and is shunned by kids whom he thinks of as friends.
Will cannot find other single women with children so he joins a single parent club, lying that he has a son. He invents a wife, Paula, son Ned and gets friendly with Susie. Finds that he cannot even invite her to his house since his story would blow up in his face.
Marcus finds his mom constantly crying. Added to this pressure at home is the bullying he faces at school.
When Marcus goes with Suzy and her child out, she meets Will in the single parent club. When they return home, the mom of Marcus was found with an open pill bottle, trying to commit suicide. She is saved, but this traumatizes Marcus. Will is an unwilling participant in all this.
Now shaken by the fact that if his mom had died, he would have been alone in the world, Marcus plots to get Will and his mom together and forces them to dinner together. Will decides that he does not want the drama and gets out. But Marcus forces into his life every day and when a trainer bought, the bullies take it away. Two things happen. Fiona gets mad at both Marcus and Will for meeting behind her back and Marcus walks out of the principal’s office when she interrogates him for the circumstances of the theft.
He forces himself into Will’s house again.
When Will falls for Rachel, with a son called Ali, Will again lies, this time telling her that he had a son called Marcus. He persuades Marcus to come with him to Rachel’s house but Ali drives him away, jealous of his mom being with anyone else but him.
They make up but Rachel stands him up in a meeting with Fiona where she says she, Rachel will help get her, Fiona, out of her funk. But stands him up.
Then when Clive, father of Marcus hurts his collarbone and wants to see his son, Fiona sends him but Ellie, his punk girlfriend, goes with him and since Kurt Cobain, her idol, killed himself, gets down in the middle station and vandalizes a shop. Since Marcus followed her, both of them end up in the police station and have to be rescued by both Clive and his girlfriend plus Fiona (with Will and Fiona’s mom)
It ends rather abruptly. It is meant to be in equal parts funny and moving but while it does both mildly, even half heartedly, it does not leave any lasting impression.
4 / 10
– – Krishna (July 2018)