Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Stay in da House Cinema 2023 - Quiz Lady

Quiz Lady streams now on Disney+

This was F-U-N!

Okay biased. I do love Awkwafina and Sandra Oh. However together, they make an awesome team.

The film also stars Jason Schwartzman, Holland Taylor, Tony Hale, Jon "Dumbfoundead" Park, and Will Ferrell. 

Quiz Lady landed a little earlier this month on Disney+, however it is my goal to get through a few more home streaming films, over the next few weeks. To build up my Stay in da House Cinema 2023 series.

So what's this cute little comedy about? Anne (Awkwafina), a tightly wound, game show-obsessed young woman, receives a call notifying her that her gambling addict mother has fled to Macau. 

This news reunites her with her estranged and reckless older sister, Jenny (Sandra Oh). 

So part road movie, part comedy/chick-sister2sister film. Awkwafina is always delightful while Sandra Oh is definitely not in Killing Eve anymore.


So if you need to leave your brain at work (or elsewhere), you need to check out, zone out or bliss out. Quiz Lady is a really fun little feature.

Currently on Rotten Tomatoes, it scores 80%. Saying Quiz Lady's perfectly matched leads help Jessica Yu's occasionally uneven comedy overcome its periodic wobbles and land on the right side of hilarious and heartfelt.

I enjoyed this sister bonding Who Wants to Be a Millionaire style comedy. Awkwafina was always fun as Nora from Queens, however I think she can move away from Queens to bring us other amusing little comedies like this.

Not bad, not bad at all, 3.5 Stars.

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