History is best told through words. When you hear the words “I have a
dream” you are taken back instantly to the fight for civil rights. “Four score
and seven years ago” takes you back to the civil war and finally “That’s one
small step for man and one giant leap for mankind”. I have always loved quotes,
because to me there is no better way to look at the great moments in the past,
than to hear it from the people that lived it. I will say though, that all
those words are great, but there are three words, to me that stand above them
all, and no it is not “I love you”, those words are “In a World”
Those words were made famous by Don Lafontaine, a voice that most people
would recognize as the “movie-trailer guy”. The voiceover world is a guy’s
world, but what if a woman were to make it into that world? That is the question Lake Bell dares to ask
in a film that she not only stars in, but also wrote and directed. Carol (Lake
Bell) is trying to get in the voiceover business, but is having a hard time
getting into a world dominated by men. In the meantime she gives voice dialect
lessons to help her get by financially. During
one such training session she gets a shot to do a voice over when a guy named
Gustav (Ken Marino) doesn’t show up. Carol nails the job, which leads to more
opportunities. Carol lives with her sister Dani (Michaela Watkins) and her
husband Moe (Rob Corddry) because her father wants his younger girlfriend to
move in with him. Her father Sam (Fred Melamed) is one of the greats of the
voiceover world, and she not only longs for the industries approval, but that
of her own fathers as well.
Now I know that sounds about
as much fun as watching a bad “Baywatch” episode, but it’s not. In fact “In a
World” will have you laughing more than some of the bigger comedies of the
summer. Lake Bell just nails it in every way. You can tell she put a lot of
love and effort in making this movie. You also get to see a part of Hollywood
far removed from the glitz and glamour we picture when we think of that town.
There are so many invisible people that fill our world with entertainment that
we never see. Without voiceover work we would not have those 15 to 20 minutes
of heaven we see before every movie we see. Now you get to see that world of
the golden voices that tell us what one man is going to do or survive. “In a
World” is just a fun and entertaining movie, which is very well written and is
done as good, if not better than most of its more expensive counterparts. So do
yourself a favor and discover a world where one woman makes a movie, that is a
good as it gets.
Brian Taylor
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