The Little Hours will provide all the laughs you need to get through this hot, hot summer.
The ensemble cast of The Little Hours is all the convincing it takes for hardcore comedy fans to ditch the heat and head to the movie theaters this summer. With so much talent in one place, you know you’re guaranteed a few laughs and at least one memorable line delivered by a favorite comedian. You get way more than that with The Little Hours, a movie so beyond belief you’re never quite sure how it works all the way through to the end. Jeff Baena’s genius re-tells, in the silliest way, the first story on the third day of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron. The Little Hours debuted at Sundance Film Festival in January and is currently playing at select theaters across the country this summer.
Simply put, the movie makes no sense. The setting and costumes are Medieval, but the dialogue is all very 2017. Right out the gate you see Nick Offerman, dressed as a savage warrior, speak at the dinner table about 13th century rivalries as though it were a bad day for him on Wall Street. Minutes into the movie, three nuns wearing habits violently terrorize an innocent handy-man for saying hello. It’s the best.
Enter Dave Franco
The story centers around Alessandra (Allison Brie), Genevra (Kate Micucci), and Fernanda (Aubrey Plaza), three sexually curious nuns looking for answers in the exact same place. Er, exact same guy. The movie’s resident hunk, Massetto (Dave Franco), finds himself at the monastery after sleeping with Warrior Offerman’s wife (Lauren Weedman). He escapes Offerman and is offered a position by drunk priest John C. Reilly to work at the monastery, so long as he pretends to be a deaf-mute while on the property. Wasting no time, all three girls of God manage to go wild with Massetto. Throw in wonderful performances by Molly Shannon as the head nun with sex secrets of her own and Fred Armison as the CPA-esque Bishop, and you have one hell of a Catholic comedy.
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