In a World...

2013 • 92 minutes

About this movie

Inside the cutthroat culture of movie trailer voice-over artists, Carol, a young female voice coach, joins the all-male race to land the white-hot new trailer of a blockbuster trilogy, and with it lay claim to the legendary trailer catchphrase "In a world...".

Ratings and reviews

Pros: -Interesting writing/directing style that gives a slightly different feel than typical romantic comedies. -Has a modern style that embraces "awkward" comedy (kissing noses, uncomfortable situations, etc) - Gives you a peek inside an interesting corner of hollywood (the voice over actor). Cons: - Couple weird emotional jumps from laughing to horrible tragedy (wife caught cheating). It was just kind of jarring. - Writing could have been more crisp. - The moral of the story was a little superficial. Politics (spoiler): - Obviously this movie has a political/moral message about women coming into their own power. I'm all for this. However, to raise women up, I think we need to "lift all boats" and not make women empowerment at the expense of males. At the end, the dad suffers a tragedy where he's coming to the end of his career and is defeated for a voice-over job (by his daughter) and he runs into a room to cry. His girlfriend comes into the room and becomes a mother figure and berates the father for crying and not "maning up". These types of rules of manhood destroy boys at an early age.

A nice comedy about a woman making her way in a man's world. I would also say it's about father-daughter relationships, some men aging and becoming driven by their own thoughts about their supremacy (sexual prowess). And yes there is some love here and there so in the end you can classify this as a romantic comedy (same way as Silver Lining could be classified as a Romantic comedy)

Kudos to Lake Bell for coming up with an innovative theme for movie and also executing it well. Love the underlying quirkiness. There were some scenes that were highlights for the movie such as the "kiss on the nose" and "positive roadblock". I wish her the very best for her future endeavors and more people should watch the movie.