Hey folks, Harry here with the latest career change for Jennifer Garner. She started off with the action gal, then there was the 13 GOING ON 30 bit of appealing to the tweenies - with this - it looks for certain that she's going to be aiming at the older couples audience. And seems to hint at Garner nudity as possibly coming through. We'll see... Here's the look at the script as it is now...
Hey guys, just got the script for Catch and Release and thought, since the lead lady is set to be played by everyone’s favorite super-spy Jennifer Garner, that you might like a little review and synopsis. The script is penned by Susannah Grant (Erin Brochovich), who will also direct the film for Sony Columbia as a feature film. Principal photography is scheduled to begin March 2005, in Vancouver.
Spoilers follow.
Catch and Release’ opens on a scene which we soon learn was supposed to be a wedding, but has instead turned into a funeral. Grady, Gray’s (Garner) fiancé has just died in a rafting accident. His friends are all present. We get an oddly compelling scene next where a grief-stricken Gray is drowning her sorrows in an-upstairs bath-tub. Fritz, one of Grady’s friends, barges in with one of the cocktail girls and proceeds to bang her on the bathroom sink. Gray hears it all. Later, Fritz pulls back the shower-curtail to find a curled-up, naked Gray. The script is littered with these awkward pauses and exchanges, which ultimately set the tone for the entire piece.
The rest of the screenplay follows Gray as she begins to learn that her fiancé was not the perfect man he once appeared to be and three of Grady’s closest friends, (Fritz being one of them) as they deal with the loss of the one thing keeping them all afloat--Grady’s friendship. In this grief and confusion we begin to see new relationships forming between the four, awkward at first, until you gradually realize how much they need each other. By the end of the script, Fritz, introduced at first as an asshole director, grows a softer side (who could have guessed?) and forms a quasi-relationship with Gray.
On the one hand the plot of the screenplay reeks like a made for lifetime movie-of-the-week. Fortunately, the dialogue is so compelling that it propels the script to a much higher level. There’s a scene where Gray breaks down and tries to prove, by listing all her darkest thoughts that she’s not the perfect woman everyone thinks she is (she’s head of a Green Party candidates campaign). Pretty great stuff. Unfortunately it’s hard to see Jennifer Garner in the role of Gray. As of now she has this sort of innocent, girl next door quality (who kicks lots of ass). I assume, with this role, she’s looking to get herself to place where she can get some sort of indie cred like Aniston with ‘The Good Girl.’ Still, I can’t see Garner spitting lines like;
Sam [one of the three friends]: I lived with him for years, he never cut me that deal.
Gray: You obviously didn’t go down on him enough.
Oddly enough, I could see Aniston fitting into the role much easier than Garner.
The script succeeds when it gets down to the barest of human emotions, especially potent early in the sexual relationship between Fritz and Gray (one which at first seems to stem from anger). Overall, the relationships portrayed are dark, honest and compelling. Garner is going to have to work her ass off to nail Gray, or the movie will crumble around her.
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