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Watching perhaps one of the worst movies ever made, "Apartment Troubles" on Showtime. It's suppose to be a comedy, but the two female stars are obnoxious and horrible actors. What is funny about killing a cat with gold paint, burning a cat on a grill, being evicted, spilling a pan on a stove, breaking into a house, taking Aderol, tearing up fake flowers, dressing in garbage bags, making fun of artists, starving but refusing to eat, hovering in a corner when someone is outside of a door, stuffing your face with angle food cake & red wine...I will never get this time back. What's so funny about two losers who think they're actors? So sad that Jeffery Tambor and Will Forte had graced their presence on this thing, even though it was for brief cameos. Sorry Ms Mulally, why? Avoid at ALL COSTS, trust me...

well the idea of the movie is not clear.

The plot is vague and shattered all over the place .... just some scenes rolling over two girls living like semi-Homeless by choice !!,, or is it about life !! all starts with troubles of their apartment !!

It's suppose to be a Comedy/Drama but i kinda didn't get or see that !! The movie gives few bits of comedy when Will Forte and Megan Mullally appeared.

The stroyline and the events are so still ,, no ups or downs .. it's not that tempting to keep on watching you just wait for the moment that attract you but it never comes.

thou in the second part of the movie got awkwardly somehow funny but god it was still weird :P

The casting ,, well i couldn't really judge the cast .. i mean of the two leads "Nicole"and"Olivia" are suppose to act this way of laziness, careless, cleansing and all about the soul then they did a good job but still it didn't help the movie in any way.

Overall,, the writers should'v done so much more work to make it a real comedy-Drama movie ,, now it's just A movie .. no genre is included.

What a waste of time watching this nonsense. Two very annoying, spoiled, addicted to medication, crazy, lesbians that are semi homeless, one is wealthy but too proud to be with her wealthy family so decides to live like trash. Both have no artistic talent but they think they do, the ending is as annoying as the beginning. Boring & dumb!

Bob (Jeffrey Tambor) is renting to Olivia and Nicole ( Jennifer Prediger, Jess Weixler ) in the village, but they aren't paying the rent, so out they go! So they head for california. Of course. The girls are self centered. And immature. And probably mentally challenged. They jump on dad's private jet (!) and away they go. Guest stars Megan Mullally and Lance Bass! Of course, Mullally steals the show once they get to her house. All kinds of wacky things happen. And they end up back home. Such a strange, happy, sad ending. A long, journey. This one is also known as Trouble Dolls on Roku; there's an old legend that when you go to bed, you should tell your troubles to your doll, and they will be resolved by morning. Written and directed by... Jennifer Prediger and Jess Weixler. Not sure what to make of this one. It's many things, rolled up in one.

Take a nice break from the Hollywood film factory movies and watch this very funny movie.

Two very good looking young women struggling to get by in big city New York.

Funny and believable situations with all the people in this funny movie, esp the people in la la land.

I've had siblings and friends in the arts in Manhattan. At a safe distance, their otherworldliness and detachment from convention and straight-line aspiration I've found somewhere between charming and exasperating, but always funny. These are low-rent auteurs on a tear. I've known a thousand of them, and this film gets them. If you can't see the humor in them, you just don't have the gene. The LA sequences were a perfect microcosm of Manhattan arts meets LA television studio.

I loved this movie. It so captures the empty soul-searching life of modern pampered Americans. I was impressed by the writers capturing the whole New York artiste vibe, and then I learn the two gals are the writers, as well as directors. This made the movie go from funny to hilarious. Such perfection in self-parody we have not seen since Tropic Thunder. It's an exercise in self-absorption that is making fun of self-absorption. Crystalline fractal perfection.

They had the whole East Coast/West Coast thing going on too. I was reminded of that Woody Allen line about how, "People in LA just eat dinner and watch movies." Wouldn't that be the perfect way to format the LA Times newspaper? Two big columns, one for movies, one for restaurants. In more unintentional self-parody, in real life, the brainier-acting gal did end up moving from New York to LA. In real life, the blond writer/director/actor (a super slashie!) just hung around until she spawned and had a kid a few years ago. Welcome to reality, blondie.

The film is an anthropological delight. As a tech worker, my tribe has given you Earthlings a life better than any 19th century king or queen. So I am fascinated by the huge bulk of people too lazy or scared or narcissistic to get a useful job. You know, something like brick-layer, scientist, historian, lawyer, doctor, AC repairman, or grocery bagger. Oh, you enjoy the fruits of my tribe's labor, while making fun of us, as it's been from Junior High to sitcoms like Big Bang Theory. And now you sit around basking in leisure, only to end up not only being useless, but enshrining uselessness.

And the feelings, oh the feelings! It is wonderful to see people who operate purely on feelings, with nary a rational thought clouding their judgement. Getting evicted? No problem, take a private jet vacation, while pouting that mommy and daddy don't love you. And what aspirations. Not making the world the tiniest bit better for humanity or farm animals or plankton. No, one plays pretend in an insurance commercial, while the other one fills prophylactics with sand, and declares, It's Art!

Speaking of art, more multi-level joy with the LA performance piece, which was, you have admit, pretty dang good. It lacked the stark simplicity and ennui of the performance of The Dude's landlord in The Big Lebowski, but it was still excellent. I am not being sarcastic. Let's see you come up with something so smart and fun, and then do it in front of other human beings. The trash-bag art and fashion also evoked images of the tremendous Derilicte campaign in Zoolander. It used things well-done to make fun of things poorly done, only most people can't tell the difference. Check out Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael to see more slagging of LA culture and movie star aspirations. As a bonus, the blond in this movie looks like a cross between Paris Hilton and Winona Ryder.

Which might provide a good juncture to note just how good the acting in this movie is. That these two gals are not A-list superstars highlights the exigencies and vicissitudes of the acting profession. That and not being a nepo baby. It's too bad, but they are still young, so maybe future glory awaits.

And now I have to read Chekhov since he was name-dropped in the movie. And yeah, even I knew they were not talking about the Chekhov in Star Trek. Chekhov's play, The Seagull, is free on Project Gutenberg. The gals intentionally mangled the Chekov quote, so here is is, since you are too lazy to check it out yourself:

"All men and beasts, lions, eagles, and quails, horned stags, geese, spiders, silent fish that inhabit the waves, starfish from the sea, and creatures invisible to the eye-in one word, life-all, all life, completing the dreary round imposed upon it, has died out at last." Anton Checkov

Which gets you thinking, Hey, maybe the whole purpose of technology is to support the arts?