“Smile Again, Jenny Lee,” a cringe-inducing, bloated story about a bratty tennis star in search of her long-lost father, is painful to watch, because it feels like a passion project in which everyone is trying to serve aces, yet all we get are double faults. Thanks to her agent making off with all her earnings, Jenny inexplicably decides to track down her missing-in-action, deadbeat father to secure money for her tennis comeback. Along for the ride is an amnesiac gentleman whom Jenny meets, and their boring search for the father anchors the film, or perhaps more precisely, puts an anchor around the movie’s neck. Director Carlo Caldana, who based the dim script on his novel, employs an impressive array of San Francisco locations, but the characters and story feel like they are from a distant place. The overly expository dialogue is flat as a Wimbledon court, and the editing is particularly sloppy.
Comment on ‘Smile Again, Jenny Lee’ is one long frown
By David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle: Entertainment
Wed, 01/18/2017 - 3:48pm
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