Virgil Films &
Entertainment will capture romantic magic on May 28 with the DVD debut of
director Brad Leong’s Dorfman in Love.
A major metro theatrical
push is planned for Mar. 22 to raise awareness and add to the critical reviews
already garnered by the film’s year-long film festival run, which included four
Best Feature wins (and more).
Sara Rue (A
Slipping-Down Life, Pearl Harbor, plus such sitcoms as Less
Than Perfect and Rules of Engagement) shines as Deb
Dorfman, a twenty-something single woman living in Los Angeles and would-be babysitter
to her eccentric and widowed father (played by Eliot Gould).
It’s clever how Leong
sets up the obviously attractive Rue as something of a schlub — a milktoast
accountant working for her brother (Jonathan Chase), who doubles-down on the
guilt their father already lays on her. She secretly pines for her brother’s best
friend, Jay (Johann Urb — he co-starred with Rue in the short-lived Eastwick
television series, plus such films as Resident Evil: Retribution, 2012,
etc.), but he has her firmly planted in the “friend” zone in terms of their
relationship.
So much so that he asks
her to take care of his cat while he is out of town for a week. In her plain vanilla world, she sees that
invitation as the a twofold opportunity — one, get away from dad for a week;
two, impress Jay with how well she takes care of his place … of course he will
immediately fall in love with her.
It’s a good plan. As plans of the heart go. There are just two little problems that send
everything spinning out of control. She
meets Cookie (Haaz Sleiman — The Visitor), one of Jay’s neighbors,
who is completely not her type and dad is too lonely to be without her, so he
moves in.
She also makes other
friends — new, unexpected, friends and an amazing transformation begins to take
place. This Cinderella finds the glass
slipper (figuratively speaking) and the fancy “dress ball” comes in the form of
a romantic showdown in the film’s cleverly spun third act finale.
Virgil Films has a gem
here and that theatrical showcase in March can only add to its luster.
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