{"id":10266,"date":"2006-06-17T14:59:31","date_gmt":"2006-06-17T18:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=10266"},"modified":"2006-06-17T14:59:31","modified_gmt":"2006-06-17T18:59:31","slug":"the-coatroom-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/17\/the-coatroom-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coatroom (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"coatroomm\"<\/a>I swear, if I wasn\u2019t aware this was an independent film from someone else, I\u2019d insist until my face turned blue that this was directed by Terry Zwigoff. Take the demented attitude of Zwigoff, the situations of \u201cClerks\u201d, and the awkward realism of \u201cThe Office\u201d and you\u2019ll pretty much have \u201cThe Coatroom\u201d. Gilbert\u2019s film is an entertaining absurdist existential comedy about a group of people, working in an awful job, contemplating life and their dead end careers in art.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Coatroom\u201d reminded me a lot of films like \u201cClockwatchers\u201d and \u201cClerks\u201d in which we have to view monotony, and these people\u2019s confinement within these workaday jobs with odd characters, and their inability to break out of it, because they have nothing else. Yet, they\u2019re able to find a way to get through the day. Gilbert\u2018s film explores the utterly obscure life of people who work in coat rooms, this one in particular is set in a coatroom at an art museum in Philadelphia. Carrico\u2019s writing is perhaps the best aspect of \u201cThe Coatroom\u201d because each of the characters are written with immense detail, and present many of their own quirks.<\/p>\n

Particularly Bromwell, who plays the senior worker at the museum who has to tutor the new employees and revels in violating the coats she takes, and gauges the customers for tips, even though her boss forbids her to. Bromwell\u2019s character is the most defined as she flirts with many of the workers and sits whittling away while they feel the need to turn to her for advice and rant about their own meaningless existences. Bromwell\u2019s performance is great, and the dialogue helps that. Thankfully Carrico\u2019s comedic situations never get too hokey for what the plot entails, and most of the comedy is based around the heavy dialogue, and character chemistry that works without a hitch. One of the funniest being Claire persuading the star Patrick to buy her museum tickets so she can take retarded kids, and Patrick inadvertently taking the wrap for an incident in the bathroom.<\/p>\n

The Coatroom\u2019s charm is reliant on the witty and sharp dialogue that forces a laugh here and there, and great situations involving the actual coatroom make it enjoyable. \u201cThe Coatroom\u201d is filled with great performances, particularly from Gary Keenan who has the best dialogue as a stoner drunk who feels the need to wax poetic whenever he\u2019s high or drunk. Gilbert explores this little known facet of the workplace with flair, yet it\u2019s really just a microcosm, and it\u2019s up there with \u201cOffice Space.\u201d Gilbert\u2018s film is arty without ever being pretentious, and is an awfully hilarious character driven story of people on the way to nowhere, seeking a path. With hilarious writing by Carrico, and great performances by such a large cast, \u201cThe Coatroom\u201d is an absurdist comedy that deserves to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I swear, if I wasn\u2019t aware this was an independent film from someone else, I\u2019d insist until my face turned blue that this was directed by Terry Zwigoff. Take the demented attitude of Zwigoff, the situations of \u201cClerks\u201d, and the awkward realism of \u201cThe Office\u201d and you\u2019ll pretty much have \u201cThe Coatroom\u201d. Gilbert\u2019s film is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[111,170,219,302,501],"class_list":["post-10266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-arthouse","tag-c","tag-comedy","tag-drama","tag-indie-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}