Review: ‘Meet Bill’

Meet Bill … written by Melisa Wallack and co-directed by Bernie Goldman, we are introduced right at the beginning of the film to Bill, played by Aaron Eckhart (Thank You for Smoking), a middle-aged loser who hates his job and can’t understand how he got so old and out-of-shape so quickly. Bill works for his father-in-law who owns a bank. Bill’s brother-in-law, played by Todd Louiso (High Fidelity), is an up-tight a**hole who can’t stand Bill and also works at the bank. After Bill catches his wife Jess, played by Elizabeth Banks (Definitely, Maybe), cheating on him he begins on a downhill battle with an identity crisis that causes him to hit rock bottom … until the kid he mentors helps pull him out of his funk with the help of Lucy, played by Jessica Alba (Sin City) who works in a mall lingerie store.

What does all this add up to? Meet Bill is a good, funny and sometimes really funny feel-good movie that takes a guy without a chance and follows his rocky path to becoming his own man after so many years of being stepped on and taken for granted. That’s it … nothing more. Its just a good, enjoyable comedy that does have a positive story. Sometimes, that’s all a movie is … and sometimes that’s all we want in a movie and Meet Bill does the trick.

[rating:4/5]