First one was "The Surrogate" starring John Hawkes (MN Boy), Helen Hunt and William H Macy.
It was a true story of a man (Michael O'Brien) who lived in an iron lung due to polio who was a poet and writer. After writing an article about sex surrogates, he hires a sex surrogate to have sex with himself, something that isn't uncommon for people with severe disability (per what we researched after).
I thought this movie was going to be very depressing, it wasn't...in fact it was quite funny at times.
The over all story was beautifully told and the character development was fabulous. I laughed, but also cried...wow did I cry. It was so very well done I hope that it gets picked up and is distributed nationally so everyone can see this story. So well done! The director/writer (below) is Ben Lewin, him and his wife sat behind us as we managed VERY good seats for this showing and he was a beautifully spoken man :)
After the movie we went and hung out on Main Street...where I finally saw a celebrity without Darien or Amy pointing them out to me. Tim Daly walked by me as I was standing in a doorway waiting on Amy to buy some boots. I said "hey...Tim Daly"...and he turned and waved as he was on his phone. And for the record - he is beautiful in person!
We then headed to dinner at the Bling Dog, the girls got sushi and I had a salad and mac and cheese (one last indulgence). We toasted a great trip and I bought Sophie a cure leash from there (doggie has to get a present when I travel!)
We walked back over to the Eccles Theatre for "Bachlorette" starring Kirsten Dunst, Isla Fisher, Lizzy Caplan, James Marsden and Rebel Wilson ... and produced by Will Farrell, who was in the audience too. While the cast was fabulous, the movie was not. I found the characters annoying at times and although there were some very funny lines in the movie, it lacked characters you cared about at all. I think it tried too hard to show the dark side of women, but took it way over the top. If anything you could take away from it, it would be that long time friends ALWAYS have each others back, no matter what and that I completely agree with.
