Aug 25-31 Natasha Lyonne Week: There’s a new season of her weirdo mystery of the week coming out (I can’t remember the name rn, you can look it up), and she’s been steadily delivering chuckles for decades now.

Imogene Duncan (Kristen Wiig) was once a promising playwright, but now has a magazine writing job. She gets fired, her boyfriend leaves her, and she tries to kill herself, but really wants her boyfriend to save her. Instead, her friend Dara (June Diane Raphael! Hello people of Earth!) brings her to the hospital, and she has to be released to the care of her gambling addict mother (Annette Bening) and taken back home to New Jersey.

Directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini and written by Michelle Morgan, this has Imogene learn that her father (Bob Balaban) never died and never felt bad about leaving the family.

This is very much a sitcom, and luckily, Kristen Wiig would go on to do better things. You can play the spot Natasha Lyonne game like I did, wishing she were in the movie more than she is. Same as Matt Dillon, who is good, but almost not in this.

You can watch this on Tubi.