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‘Will & Harper’ Review: Will Ferrell Goes the Distance for an Old Friend After Learning That She’s Trans
You'll laugh, you'll cry, as Josh Greenbaum shadows Will Ferrell and former 'SNL' head writer Harper Steele on a revealing cross-country road trip.
The warm, open-hearted film was made by “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar” director Josh Greenbaum, who eschews fly-on-the-wall vérité in favor of the more manipulated, multi-camera approach associated with reality TV. Over the years, Steele has been the instigator for some of Ferrell’s wackiest gambits, from Spanish-language one-off “Casa de mi Padre” to his 2015 Lifetime movie, “A Deadly Adoption.” Audiences are probably hoping/expecting “Will & Harper” to provide a few zany new scenarios. Such bits are comic gold, but Greenbaum and editor Monique Zavistovski actually strive to minimize Ferrell’s ticklish tendencies — that clownish impulse to make a joke of everything — in cutting, cherry-picking the best examples and otherwise focusing on sincere emotional connection.
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