19 Butter
Starring: Yara Shahidi, Jennifer Garner, Ty Burrell, Alicia Silverstone, Olivia Wilde
Director: Jim Field Smith
Out: 5 October 2012
In small-town Iowa, an adopted 10-year-old girl (Shahidi) discovers her talent for butter sculpture and finds herself pitted against the ambitious wife (Garner) of the reigning champion (Burrell) in the annual competition. Butter carving has put the winner on Oprah and in Parade magazine so the reigning champion’s wife sees it as their way into big time politics. Meanwhile, Olivia Wilde plays a stripper, which may interest some of you. Hugh Jackman has a small role as a local car dealer. From the director of ‘She’s Out of My League’, this is pitched tonally somewhere between ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ and ‘Fargo’. It seems it doesn’t quite have the cast or the buzz to make much of an impression. [Critics: 34%] [Public: 5.9] – Mediocre
