Paint (2023)
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Duration: 96 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Brit McAdams
Stars: Owen Wilson, Stephen Root and Wendi McLendon-Covey
IMDb score:
5,0 (6.352)
Releasedate: 7 April 2023
Paint plot
"Go to a special place."
Carl Nargle has had his own television program about painting for decades. With his calm whispering voice, he captivates the mostly female viewers of the Vermont channel. However, Carl is now in a rut and the channel is no longer the ratings cannon as before. In hopes of boosting ratings, a new painter is hired, confronting Carl with his insecurities.
Actors and actresses
Carl Nargle
Katherine
Wendy
Ambrosia long
Tony
Jenna
PBS Host
Reuben
Bridget
Reviews & comments
mrklm
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- 11629 messages
- 10041 votes
Bob Ross is of course the main source of inspiration for this tragicomedy. Wilson puts on a respectful, convincing parody, but can do little to salvage McAdams' weak screenplay. Carl Nargle [Owen Wilson]'s painting shows have been a ratings hit for years at the Burlington Public Broadcasting Center, the center of public television in Vermont. But his sweet-voiced presentation style, his hippie spirit, not to mention that pipe, no longer fit in with modern times. So when the much younger Ambrosia [Clara Renée] fills in for him, his future is at stake both inside and outside the studio. There are many nice ideas, but they are all insufficiently developed.
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Duke Nukem
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- 1810 messages
- 2003 votes
What a mediocre and even extremely boring film. Normally I like Owen Wilson, but he can't do anything with this role and this scenario. He does put on a big afro wig and speaks so quietly it's almost unintelligible, trying to imitate Bob Ross, but of course that joke won't fill a whole movie. Even the always funny Stephen Root can't save Paint, although he tries his best. I'd much rather watch the real Bob Ross paint a nice painting in a youtube video in twenty minutes than waste 96 minutes on this movie.
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Donkerwoud
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- 8696 messages
- 3960 votes
Owen Wilson has a sympathetic head. He is not a great actor and yet he gets away with it because he has a favorability factor with his sympathetic head. Place him in a quirky comedy with cheerful colors and his charismatic bakkes will do the rest. In 'Paint' (2023) Owen Wilson still has a sympathetic face, but with a big afro and a lisping voice he tries to portray a character in the spirit of Bob Ross. And that is exactly what Owen Wilson should not do: play characters. The result is that 'Paint' (2023) spreads one tiring SNL sketch (Bob Ross as a spineless womanizer stuck in the seventies) over 96 minutes. And that is way too long for a character who is actually not that funny. Owen Wilson must be Owen Wilson, with that sympathetic face of his.
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