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Reese Witherspoon Rides the ADD Wave / Dustin Rowles

Trade News | October 30, 2009 | Comments (19)

What happened to Reese Witherspoon, anyway? Has she starred in an Adam Sandler comedy I don’t know about? After winning an Oscar in 2005 for Walk the Line, Witherspoon has hit a rather rough patch in her career with three underperforming movies, Rendition, Penelope, and Just Like Heaven, in addition to an overperforming piece of excremental garbage, Four Christmases. I thought she was supposed to be the next Julia Roberts, although given Roberts’ own recent track record of duds followed by long absences, perhaps she is.

Witherspoon does, however, have a good dozen projects currently in development. The latest is Rule #1, from an original script by Terrel Seltzer. By original script, I mean: It wasn’t based on a studio pitch, although the logline sounds like it should’ve been: It’s about a New York woman who befriends a Puerto Rican girl with attention deficit disorder. I don’t even know if that’s a comedy or a drama — ADD is neither particularly funny or debilitating. Given Seltzer’s track record (One Fine Day, How I Got Into College), I’m actually guessing that it’s in the genre of suck.

Witherspoon will produce and star.


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Comments

Freeway was really good.

Posted by: Mebe at October 30, 2009 9:08 AM

I don’t even know if that’s a comedy or a drama — ADD is neither particularly funny or debilitating.

What's their angle for such a commonly diagnosed condition? Who doesn't know at least a few people who either already are or could be Hey let's go ride bikes!

Posted by: branded at October 30, 2009 9:18 AM

Lick the book...Lick the book. Lickthebooklickthebooklickthebooklickthebooklickthebooklickthebook. Book. Book. Book. Book. Wanna go shave a dog?

...RAAAAAH! I'm an albatross! I'm flap flap flapping my albatross wings.

Posted by: Jeremy Feist at October 30, 2009 9:26 AM

You know, that is not funny. Not funny at all.

As an ADD sufferer, I have to put up with a lot of people taking my disorder so lightly. It is not easy to

SQUIRREL!

focus on a single subject at a time, and it is very disconcerting.

I hope you take that into consideration when you make your little jokes.

Posted by: Vermillion at October 30, 2009 9:30 AM

I also possess ADD, and people not only have no idea I have it, they also find me to be quite funny for all the right reasons.

Also, I happen to agreen with Sir Vermillion's point that... SQUIRREL!

Posted by: Doctor Controversy at October 30, 2009 9:32 AM

CLONE HIGH SHOUTOUT!

I want your babies, Jeremy.

Posted by: spideychris at October 30, 2009 9:34 AM

This could start a whole new genre of Stand And Deliever-type movies featuring minimally debilitating conditions.

Cameron Diaz plays an L.A. hairdresser who befriends a troubled young Mexican-American girl with dandruff in From Hair to Eternity.

Mena Suvari plays a Philadelphia track coach who leads a troubled young black boy to a state championship despite his flat feet in Gulag Fallen Archipelgo".

Molly Sims plays a Chicago teacher who takes a special interest in a troubled young Pakistani boy with astigmatism in To Blur With Love.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at October 30, 2009 9:36 AM

Jaime Pressly plays a Charleston social worker who takes a special interest in a troubled young Hawaiian boy with a light stutter in St-st-st-standing T-t-t-tall. It will be a 4 hour miniseries.

Posted by: Vermillion at October 30, 2009 9:47 AM

Reece Witherspoon was in Little Nicky, she played Adam Sandler's Mum, don't know if that counts in the curse, since she wasn't the love interest.

Posted by: returnofthesmith at October 30, 2009 10:08 AM

On a related note:

I went to see UP this summer.

A few weeks later I went to see Julie & Julia.
At the end of that movie when Julia Child is on her front porch hyperventilating, and trying to decide if she should open the envelope from Alfred Knopft that says they want to publish here cookbook, there's a squirrel crawling down a tree in the background.

The entire audience yelled, "SQUIRREL!"

It kinda broke the mood of the scene but it was hilarious.

Posted by: BWeaves at October 30, 2009 10:16 AM

Sarah Carter plays a Newark sanitation engineer who takes a special interest in a troubled young Bhutani girl with bad acne in The Pores of Friendship.

Sarah Chalke plays a Seattle hostess who takes a special interest in a troubled young Eskimo boy with spilt ends in A Cut Above the World.

Posted by: Vermillion at October 30, 2009 10:57 AM

Dustin, you are wrong. My daughter has ADHD and I can say it is both funny and debilitating.

Sometimes I want to kill her, but she's so stinking hilarious, that I just laugh instead.

When she was in first grade, she got an F (or whatever is the equivalent) on a math test. Several of the problems required her to figure out who had more $ in a particular situation, Marla or Robert. Instead of writing the names she wrote "Monkey" or "Rabbit". I was really angry when she got her paper back I asked her why she did it and she just shrugged and said "Because it's funny." She was right, it was funny. I couldn't argue that logic.

Posted by: wsapnin at October 30, 2009 11:05 AM

That had me chuckling at my desk, BWeaves.

Posted by: Drake at October 30, 2009 11:06 AM

I'm going to dispense with the usual "who's the Pajibette in the photo?" attempt at humor because this has to be said: Reese is possibly the most beautiful woman in movies right now.

Doesn't mean I'm going to see this PoS, oh no, but damn, she's fine.

Posted by: , (TCFKAB) at October 30, 2009 12:55 PM

i haven't yet forgiven her for the crapfest that is sweet home alabama.

::shudder::

Posted by: stopthemadness at October 30, 2009 1:44 PM

I second that emotion, wsapnin, My son is ADHD to the max and we go from pee your pants, rolling on the floor hilarity to fire-breathing rage and frustration at least 50 times a day.

Definitely debilitating for all since all our neighbors think we are insane and need some serious anger management counseling.

Posted by: Mrs Smith at October 30, 2009 2:14 PM

we liked 'penelope'

Posted by: maxpurr9 at October 30, 2009 7:52 PM

what's happened to Reese Witherspoon? she's caught up in her own hype. she produced the second Elle Woods film (an embarrassment), penelope (lame and inept) and four christmases (funless cliche ridden crap), thereby proving that as a producer, she's a better actor and there's more to acting than PR. what does money and power mean in hollywood if this is the outcome?

Posted by: Patricia at October 30, 2009 8:24 PM

So that's not a picture of Helena Bonham Carter?

Posted by: bo at November 1, 2009 8:47 PM





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