Enough Said is a charming romantic comedy
anchored by two engaging leads.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus turns in excellent work as the protagonist, and
James Gandolfini makes for a surprisingly effective love interest. Add to this a supporting cast that
includes Toni Collette (CDNW) and Katherine Keener, and you get 90 or so
minutes with interesting, complex people whom you’re happy to meet.
Louis-Dreyfus plays a remarkably affluent
massage therapist, driving from appointment to appointment in her immaculate
little Prius and living in the kind of nice little rancher that’s dotted across
Los Angeles and Orange counties, and that goes for roughly $600k as of January,
2016. Gandolfini plays a
remarkably affluent archivist, working in a reconditioned warehouse, driving an
Audi, and living in another roughly $600k home. Keener’s a poet who somehow lives in a million dollar
mission-style place in Santa Monica, and Collette’s a therapist who actually
lives in the kind of home a therapist to the wealthy could conceivably afford.
But enough about the fact that everyone
in this movie, apart from Collette, should be living in dumpy apartments in
Torrance. This is a fantasy – a
fantasy in which working people get to live like rich people, and that’s
ok. More importantly, this is a
romantic comedy, and both Louis-Dreyfus and Gandolfini do fine jobs selling
both the romance and the comedy.
They play adults – a little damaged, trying to get along – who find one
another. Complications ensue, as
they must, and they’re played with just the right touch. Consequently, Enough Said delivers just what one could want from such a
film. I smiled; I got a little
choked up; I didn’t want it to end.
Really, what more could one want?
