Drama

Hot Air

Spanknyce Films

United States of America

English

Steve Coogan

Neve Campbell

Taylor Russell

Skylar Astin

Judith Light

Lawrence Gilliard Jr.

Pico Alexander

Griffin Newman

John Rothman

Geoffrey Cantor

Tina Benko

Jin Ha

Teddy Coluca

Oona Roche

Kerry Johnson

Frank Coraci

Susan Leber

Will Reichel

Frank Prinzi

Aimee Keen

Tom Lewis

Robert Halmi Jr.

Rebecca Luke

Rupert Gregson-Williams

Liz Toonkel

Shelly Rodriguez

Kim Fischer

Jim Reeve

Kathleen Chopin

Justine Arteta

Kim Davis-Wagner

Sheldon Nylander

With cookie-cutter characters that stumble and trip their way through a cliched plot (tell me if you've heard this one: Smart and spunky teenager shows up on the doorstep of a stuffy conservative family member and makes them look inward for a better way to be), "Hot Air" is not insightful nor is it even that timely.

The characters are not relatable to the point of being reprehensible and feel like they lurch their way along like emotional Frankenstein's monsters in difficult or impossible to believe directions with little tangible and no believable character development. The only character that seems to derive any relatability is the teenage niece, Tess, but even she doesn't demonstrate much depth and can be very irritating. Steve Coogan's long-winded speech near the end seems to come out of nowhere with less provocation than he would have clearly had in the past.

Overall, you'll probably feel the same way if you just walk repeatedly into a closed door for a little while futily hoping to get to the other side, and you won't waste 100 minutes doing it.

Hot Air - UK trailer - Starring Steve Coogan, Neve Campbell and Taylor Russell

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