Zach Braff has a new movie, and MGM Plus had it with audio description. In this film, he plays an English teacher who is very into Shakespeare, and has a Canadian girlfriend currently living with him in the states. She’s a professional chef, and the opportunity of a lifetime for her is presented, but is back in Canada where her family is, and where the job might be. So, not wanting to lose his girlfriend, Braff follows her to Canada, tries to impress her family, and fight off competition from her potential boss, who is actually an ex-girlfriend of his current girlfriend. And, this of course culminates in more Shakespeare.
The best reason for my blind and visually impaired friends to seek out the audio described version is that the film is bilingual. Her family speaks a lot of French, which Braff doesn’t fluently speak. It gets translated, and of course we can’t see subtitles, but it makes a huge difference to have the audio description. The film is just a really average romcom, and somewhat depressing in that Braff has had more memorable leading roles, and also isn’t a bad director either. His choice to do this project is a little odd, because the film just isn’t full of talented people to lift it up. It is mostly on Braff to carry the film.
Final Grade: B-
