pamela

This movie is a lovely satire/docu-comedy/drama about a writing "support" group in LA, mostly filled with pretentious, narcissistic wanna-bees. The majority are there either to (1) to get laid or (2) have a captive audience to spout lines from their cringe-worthy attempts at writing a novel. The way this is portrayed in the movie, even though slightly over the top, is actually really funny and believable in the context of LA and maybe anywhere. So, everything chugs along smoothly until one young lady (Kaley Cuoco) who is actualy hard at work writing, gets some attention from a publisher, and the facade of group civility vanishes. Her sucsess creates major rifts in the group and barely conrolled outbursts of jealousy and venom from both the men and women. You do want to root for Kaley because she is a focused, young, fresh, and sincere writer, who is not trying to upset the apple cart, but who's success creates an avalanche of repurcussions. . There is one or two things I seriously disliked about this movie. The main thing is that there is a guy in the group who is practically stalking her in the the name of "friendship and support" but is actually trying to destroy her confidence to compensate for his feelings of inadequacy. He become increasingly hostile and verbally/emotionally abusive to her.and yet the movie seem to applaud her staying loyal to him. It's really scarey and mysogynistic. Expecially because it is revengeful -- he is obsessed with her and she won't date him. The way the film glosses over this is particularly disturbing. So, I really hated the forced syrupy ending which was a total reversal of any integrity the movie had. I gave it four stars because I really like the wit, comedy, and the delve in to human behavior in this movie, up until the forced ending.