![]() No-nonsense Amira Mohammed, meanwhile, is a newly single freelance costume designer who doesn’t suffer boring fools gladly she’s played by Lauren London with warmth, smarts and real-girl magnetism, not to mention an arsenal of well-deployed eye-rolls. Despairing that he’ll never meet his soulmate, Ezra listens to Mo’s tough-love advice and endures the matchmaking efforts of his mother, Shelley (Louis-Dreyfus), who’s in high yenta mode after a Yom Kippur service - a swirling cast-of-thousands sequence that, beyond introducing the Cohens of Brentwood, offers cameos by Elliot Gould, Hal Linden and Richard Benjamin. Their unorthodox observations snap, crackle and pop, and their best-friend chemistry is undeniable. The dynamite opening scene is a convo about “the culture” between Hill’s Ezra Cohen, aka E-Z, and his podcast partner, Mo (comedian Sam Jay, terrific in her first movie role). It comes on like gangbusters and keeps generating belly laughs well past the halfway point, slowing down then to take a GPS-directed turn into familiar romance territory.Ĭast: Jonah Hill, Lauren London, Eddie Murphy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, David Duchovny, Nia Long, Sam Jay 27 streaming debut, abounds with well-etched characters, a good number of them lovably annoying or just plain ridiculous. The Netflix comedy, receiving a limited theatrical release a week before its Jan. You People revels in tipping sacred cows (the Holocaust, slavery, liberals, Black Lives Matter), and yet it fits quite comfortably within a time-tested rom-com formula. story, the 35-year-old son of affluent white Jews and the daughter of affluent Black Muslims fall in love. At the helm of his first feature, the Black-ish creator choreographs a who’s who of comic talent and lets them shine - key among them Eddie Murphy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jonah Hill, who shares screenwriting credit with Barris. ![]() ![]() Sitcom mastermind Kenya Barris knows his way around the witty rat-a-tat, as a writer and an occasional director.
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