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‘Sacramento’ Review: Michael Cera in a Smart and Fluky Road Comedy About the Agony of Adulting
Michael Cera and Michael Angarano co-star in a shaggy engaging movie about two old friends who may no longer even like each other.
Yet it’s not every day that you see a engaging indie comedy about “adulting” — that is, characters of a certain age who are still sealed inside the youth bubble, to the point that they regard conventional grown-up activities like holding down a job or taking care of another person as beyond-their-pay-grade endeavors. In what feels like it could be a mumblecore gloss on “A Real Pain” (though maybe, given the shift in generational temperament, we should revive and rechristen that now-ancient genre by calling it chattercore), Glenn ( Michael Cera), who resides in L.A., is the nerdish conservative settled-down one, and Rickey (Michael Angarano), his oldest and closest buddy, who shows up out of nowhere, is the reckless dude who has turned his refusal to grow up into an increasingly frazzled and even crazy state of being. In addition to giving a spiky, compelling performance as Rickey, the film’s equivalent of the Kieran Culkin fast-talking-bearded-charmer-with-sociopathic-tendencies in “A Real Pain,” Michael Angarano directed and co-wrote “Saramento.” And he proves a confident and vivacious filmmaker, though in an engagingly scruffy and almost random way.
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