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ComedyYear2022Duration1h 44mIMDb5.2

Spin Me Round

ComedyRomance

A woman wins an all-expenses-paid trip to a company's gorgeous "institute" outside of Florence, and also the chance to meet the restaurant chain's wealthy and charismatic owner. She finds a different adventure than the one she imagined.

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Cast

Jeff Baena

Director

Alison Brie

Amber

Jake Picking

Jake

SC

Stella Chestnut

Maya

Lil Rel Howery

Paul

Ego Nwodim

Emily

Alessandro Nivola

Nick

Ben Sinclair

Craig

Molly Shannon

Deb

Ayden Mayeri

Jen

Zach Woods

Dana

Tim Heidecker

Fran

Debby Ryan

Susie

Lauren Weedman

Liz Bence

Aubrey Plaza

Kat

AB

Andrea Bertucci

Vendor

VC

Valentina Chisci

Saleswoman

Fred Armisen

Ricky

CP

Camillo Pardi

Giorgio

Jeff Baena

Writer

Alison Brie

Writer

Comments

10 Comments

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Gigi_LamayneMay 23, 2023

After watching, I have little idea of what the movie was trying to do. About the only takeaway I had was the feeling that I had just wasted my time. The plot was not particularly interesting and for the most part didn't make a lot of sense. I guess the film was attempting to be a comedy, but it just wasn't funny enough to justify that classification. Alison Brie's presence raised my rating by 2-3 stars, but other than her there wasn't much about the movie I can recommend.

Dianellisse RimaMay 23, 2023

In the lightest and sometimes strangest comedy of the year, Spin Me Round, a manager of Italian Grille (think Olive Garden), Amber (Alison Brie), wins a trip to a corporate immersion program in Italy, enthusiastic about vacating her humdrum life in Bakersfield, Ca. Other winner managers of varying eccentricities are played by top-drawer comic actors Tim Heidecker, Debby Ryan, Zach Woods, Ayden Mayeri, and Molly Shannon. Her fantasies are of adventure and maybe hookup, maybe love. She gets all three but not as innocent as she thought they might be. Although this is a whimsical comedy, underneath lies writer/director Jeff Baena and writer Alison Brie's satire of middle-class naivete, ambitions, and the plague of sexual harassment. We can best understand the depression of a pandemic that seemed to deflate our most wishful sailing to a place of dreams. Given that the exciting adventure of her life may be applying a commercial Alfredo sauce at work to pasta and seeing it "spin around" the microwave, it's easy to see her being a victim of the rich, handsome chain owner, Nick (Alessandro Nivola). That she doesn't see lust in the eyes of American expats at a party, who view her as easy pickings, is about the best indicator of her vulnerability. That she doesn't pick up on the cheesy way the party host (Fred Amisen) lip-synchs to "The Lady in Red" as she enters the party in her crimson gown is a further hint that Spin Me Around is light fare, and she is not prepared for the absurdity. With the equally stereotypical Euro-thriller music from composer Pino Donagio, the audience is prepared for the satire of post-Fellini decadence with a dash of humor. The Agatha Christie-like murder speculations lend a further light tone to a story that could have gone into The Twilight Zone. Spin Me Around is a beautifully photographed bit of fluff, just right for the end of the summer, a pause to reflect on our dreams as they invariably disappoint. Reality bites.

RaywinnRaynardMay 23, 2023

Near to the end, the Alison Brie character says "WTF is going on?" and most viewers will have asked the same thing about an hour earlier. The film starts off fairly predictably but once the action moves to Tuscany, no-one, except the above mentioned character, behaves like normal people behave. And not in a funny, zany-comedy way, they simply become progressively more weird. OK, you think, at any moment now, the hidden under-story will reveal itself and things will start to make sense. But it doesn't, the plot just becomes increasingly illogical, as if the writers (Brie included) concocted it one Saturday evening after several bottles of wine, with no idea how the story would end. Having said all that, it's not so frustrating that you don't see it through to the finale, it is set in Italy in the sunshine after all. But you will probably stare at the closing credits, as I did, thinking so what was that all about?

LarrywheelsMay 23, 2023

There's got to be another reason why this movie got made. Aubrey plaza and molly shannon have both been talking, bragging almost, about how they filmed in italy and took their families with them and whatnot. 70% is filmed inside a bleak poorly lit office space. This isn't a movie - it's a tax cut. Also wtf is pino donaggio doing here?

Nafz BasaMay 23, 2023

What a bore! I assumed this was supposed to be a comedy or something, but there was no jokes!?!! Characters are flat and lifeless. Seemed like no one wanted to be in this movie. This looked liked one of those forgettable films that pop up on one of those no name streaming services that nobody has. How does this director keep getting funding for his terrible dumb boring movies???

Emanda___May 23, 2023

lovenell242Mar 1, 2023

... an absolute waste of resources ... utter garbage ... with no plot ... no message ... nothing to redeem itself in any way whatsoever. The only thing that "Spin Me Round" can say for itself is that it finally answers the question of whether or not Fred Armisen and Molly Shannon have any relevance left at all. That answer is "no".

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