In a World... Page #2

Synopsis: An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voiceover star. Amidst pride, sexism and family dysfunction, she sets out to change the voice of a generation.
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Lake Bell
Production: Roadside Attractions
  3 wins & 16 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
79
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
R
Year:
2013
93 min
$2,041,184
Website
2,542 Views


- Look, there's no big hurry.

- Okay, good. Because...

Tonight would be good.

The search is on, my friend.

What's that?

There's a great big epic

coming down the pike.

They wanna bring "it" back.

Copy starts with the

words, "In a world..."

And right now, they're

trying to find their guy.

How can they do that

without LaFontaine?

He coined the phrase, he's the

godfather of the industry.

Enough with that, please! That

Don LaFontaine stuff. All right?

"Donnie was the... Was the

godfather of the industry."

"Donnie had perfect tone."

"Donnie had a big dick."

Donnie this, Donnie that!

All right, the guy was the best.

You think I don't know that?

No, Sam, that's

not what I meant.

I know what you meant. I understand.

It's just... It's just...

What is it?

I'm sorry, Gustav.

It's just hard.

I know.

I know I'm not as

good as he was.

You know what? You.

You're their guy.

- That's right.

- Sam...

If they want me to do it, sure.

I wrote the book. I

lived that life.

I'm getting a Lifetime Achievement

Award for Christ's sake.

And the fact of the matter is, I could

never really do it as good as Don. No, no.

It's time. It's time

to pass the torch.

What are you saying?

I'm saying, I'm going to

go to bat for you, kid.

Moe, I am simply saying that it

was on the counter this morning,

and that you just must

have moved it. That's it.

Honey, you've misplaced it.

That's all.

Okay. So, you're accusing me of

losing my wedding ring! Got it.

Now see, I feel like that

sounds kind of argumentative.

Moe, I'm not going

to have an argument

about whether we're having a

goddamn argument or not, right?

That's the only kind of

argument I know how to have.

- I'm coming.

- I'm somewhat practiced at it.

Dad kicked me out.

- Hey, Carol.

- What? What happened?

- I need to wash everything I own.

- Carol, could you have called?

I did, Dani, but you don't

answer your telephone.

- That's not my fault.

- What happened?

I'm glad I didn't throw

away my lucky couch.

Okay. The groupie's moving in

with Dad. Can you believe it?

- She's 23.

- She's 30.

Well, it's your fault

for introducing them.

I didn't. You always do that.

No, you do.

- What is in this bag?

- That was a different one.

So the autobiography and winning

a Lifetime Achievement Award

aren't enough? He's

gotta have a concubine?

Your dad is a sexy cool guy.

Give him a break.

"A sexy cool guy"? What's

the matter with you?

So, you can use a plane. Then

you exit to the two exit door.

The door is on

"automatchically".

The... You see the...

Up the stair and the down stair.

You go to up the stair.

Then little building here. The

little building, go, go walk way.

You... You see the park.

The park is... Okay...

What's your favorite craft?

Well, I really like

making pottery.

- It's like... Like it's

amazing... - Like in Ghost?

- Yeah, it's amazing! - I think

if you walk away, you see that.

It's like if a Beanie

Baby could talk.

I love your gloss.

Please do not accost my clientele

here with your goddamn recorders.

The Eastern Europeans are a

really paranoid group already.

I say that it's for "artistic

research" and they, like, love it.

They don't understand that.

They think that you're a spy.

- Okay?

- Excuse me.

Good afternoon, Mr. Pouncer.

How can I help you?

Well, there's this

mate of mine, right,

and he's a little under the

weather at the moment.

So I want to send him this.

Medicine.

- Very good. - There's his

address and information.

Do you think you could

do that for me, love?

Absolutely. Consider it done.

- Thanks a million.

- Have a lovely day.

Sure, now that I've seen

you, I most definitely will.

Get out of here.

I'm sorry. His voice is a

vision. What could I do?

Go to your meeting.

For someone who works

in hospitality,

you're really inhospitable.

You know that, Dani?

If they paid me a little

more, I'd be nicer.

Stop it! Don't do that!

Get out!

And I need to check out other

facilities but right...

You gotta be kidding me.

Hey, I'm here to see Louis.

Hi! I'm Nancy. I'm new.

Have a seat. I'll let

Louis know you're here.

Okay.

You're Sam Sotto's kid, right?

Yeah, how'd you know?

Your dad is so hot.

Sorry. I just bought

his autobiography.

I love to read. So, I'm

like always reading.

It's important.

Very cool. Cool.

Sotto Jr.'s here.

It's just Solomon.

It's Carol Solomon, "Sotto"

is my dad's stage name.

Guess you didn't get to

that part in the book.

Carol.

- Hey.

- What up, playa?

All right. Come on. Let's make

something shiny out of sh*t!

- Great.

- All right.

Hey, so, really sorry about

that stupid rambling message

I left on your machine

the other day

when I said "retarded"

a bunch of times.

I didn't mean actually retarded.

I think I just get nervous or something

when I'm leaving a message on your machine.

Your dad might hear it

and I'm doing a voice over

basically on your phone.

You don't have to worry about

it anymore 'cause I moved out.

So you can just call me

on my cell directly.

- Oh, yeah?

- Yeah.

Oh, cool. Definitely. I'll definitely

call you on your cell, you know.

If the situation calls for it,

professionally, I'll call you on the cell.

- I'm not gonna bum Rush

you or anything. - Okay.

I should cut you with

a knife, I should.

Is that what you think?

Is that what you think,

you stupid slapper?

Just remember the

"F" for the "T-H."

Like "F" for "fink," "fink,"

versus, like, "think."

- What do you fink,

you stupid... - Yeah.

- Say it, say it. - Is zat whot

you fink, you stupid slappa?

Is zat whot you fink,

you stupid slappa?

Yeah. There it is.

Is zat whot you fink,

you stupid slappa?

- Should we try one?

- Okay. Yeah.

Okay. I'll do a series

and we'll keep it open.

Is zat whot you fink,

you stupid slappa?

- Nice work.

- Guess who's a no show!

Gustav Jizz Nuggets.

Hey. I'm in a session, Heners.

Come on.

Louis, I gotta turn this temp track in

today. I was gonna do it myself, but...

No, no, no! You sound like an angry

Muppet. Get Cher. It'll be better.

Cher sounds like a

sleepy chipmunk.

I can do it. I

mean, I'll do it.

I'm no Don LaFontaine, but if it's

just a temp recording, I can do it.

No, that'd be perfect.

I needed to do this 10

minutes ago. Thank you.

Eva, could you just put the cork back

in your mouth and work on those vowels?

- Thank you.

- A-E-I-O-U, A-E-I-O-U...

So, Princess boy will

not be gracing us

with his shitty vocals for

this piece of Dung trailer

for a f***ing romantic

comedy with children.

This is for Welcome

to the Jungle Gym.

Hey, Gustav's sound is tight.

Do not judge him for being

monetarily privileged.

- Carol, you want a water or

a Fanta? - I'd like a Fanta.

I'm sorry, I have no

time for a rich kid

who threw away his

inheritance on a soccer team

and then somehow fell into being the

highest paid voice over artist...

Okay, Carol, why don't you

just hop in the booth.

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Lake Bell

Lake Siegel Bell (born March 24, 1979) is an American actress, director, and screenwriter. She has starred in various television series, including Boston Legal (2004–2006), Surface (2005–2006), How to Make It in America (2010–2011) and Childrens Hospital (2008–2016), and in films including Over Her Dead Body (2008), What Happens in Vegas (2008), It's Complicated (2009), No Strings Attached (2011), Million Dollar Arm (2014), No Escape (2015), The Secret Life of Pets (2016), and Home Again (2017). She wrote and directed the short film Worst Enemy, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012, followed by her 2013 feature film directing debut In a World..., in which she also starred. In 2017 she directed, wrote, co-produced and starred in I Do... Until I Don't. more…

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