In 'No Stranger Than Love' Allison Brie is Lucy Sherrington, beloved, small town Connecticut art teacher. Seemingly all the men in town are smitten by Lucy, though she is extremely polite in turning down their advances, none of the quirky locals are doing it for her; Save Clint Cobern, the gym teacher and football coach, played by Colin Hanks, who is really giving off 80's comedy Tom Hanks vibes in this. They like each other but Clint is married, after three years of sexual tension at work they decide to have an affair. Moments before they are set to consummate things, a hole into a bottomless black void opens up in Lucy's floor landing Clint in a sort of floating purgatory. Lucy can hear Clint but not see him and the pair set about trying to find a way to get him back on Tera firma.
In the mean time a debt collector played by Justin Chatwin shows up in town to collect gambling debts from Clint, so when the coach disappears locals assume the visitor did him in. Only Lucy and Justin know he didn't, things are made more complicated when the two of them starts falling in love.
Heavy on the quirky, whimsy and metaphysical, yet still extremely lite on substance. One can tell what they were going for, a kind of Gilmore Girls on acid, but it just dosen't work. Way too self aware and more absurd than funny, the movie falls into its own hole to the bottomless black void. *1/2
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