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Financial stress is widely known as a factor in marital discord.
What?
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Sharing from scratch is not your typical romantic comedy. It deals with divorce and an IRS audit.
It's more like a sequel to every romantic comedy you've ever seen, and these are some scenes from our opening credit sequence
where you see Boy meets girl, Boy and girl fall in love, they get married and live happily ever after.
Well, our film begins about a year later and you find them on a therapist couch and she wants a divorce
and they get audited by the IRS.
It's through this audit process that they have to sort through a pile of receipts from the last year in account for how they spend money
and therein lies the clues as to what went wrong.
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Whatever the mentality my generation seems to have with money and life and future,
it's not what Willie Lohman thought, it's not what Job thought.
It's a very different mentality that is a combination of irresponsibility and being a dreamer
and nobody's taught us how to navigate love and money.
I don't know, I've always loved that about wedding bands. They come in pairs.
You can't have one without the other, like socks.
Oh, socks.
In starting from scratch, we really see Allie in a state of struggling to both find what she wants out of life
and what she thinks she should want out of life in both her relationships and her career.
Everybody wants to fall in love and we see movie after movie after movie about seeing how people go through the struggle of finding love.
This is a movie about maintaining love. This is a movie about maintaining yourself.
She's really torn and then to make matters worse, she doesn't feel that support from her husband Jake
and she just doesn't know how to deal with the fact that she still loves this person
but they're just in divergent paths in their lives now.
If you like romantic comedies but hate the romantic comedies that were given by Hollywood,
you should see starting from scratch because it's not just a cookie cutter, bullshitty rom-com.
It's not safe enough to be a Hollywood movie and yet it's still so relatable and entertaining and funny and enjoyable
that it's impossible not to like this movie but it'll also surprise you.
But sooner or later, you're going to have to take a look in the mirror, take a look yourself and give it,
hey, no, no, no, no, no, we do not drink out of the can, we drink out of the glass. I've got a nice frosty glass for you in the icebox.
Do you hear me?
Starting from scratch would be a really good date movie. I think it appeals to both.
I think there's enough of a strong man predicaments going on that men would identify with it as well as women.
My mother loved the film. It's funny and it's sweet.
I can't really tell from watching it whether or not it's told from the man's point of view or the woman's point of view.
I have to leave by three.
I have my pants full right now, nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
Stop, stop!
Are you going to take this seriously or not?
I don't think I've ever seen a movie that mixes romance and taxes together so effectively.
The storytelling is really attentive and that there's a lot of care placed into it.
I am sorry that this is hurting you, but I...
Hurting me? You're like freaking Medusa!
Oh, you mean Medea?
Whatever!
This is random, but I really enjoyed the music, which is actually the first thing that I really noticed.
It's just the music is beautiful throughout the entire film.
To be honest, it just had a lot of heart that I was really able to connect to.
Making the film on the first place when I first read the script, I had a connection to it in a different way.
And then when I fell in love after we shot it and when I was watching it at the screenings, it had a whole new meaning to me.
It made me feel really sad, actually. It had a lot of points. It did. It made me feel really sad.
And this is perhaps weird, but I enjoy that sadness because it grounds me a little bit more in the experience.
We are just here to do yoga, right?
Do yoga.
True is an escape for Libby's character.
I say that I say escape just because he's completely opposite of James's character.
You're silly.
I am the life of the party for once in my life.
Would you like to come join the life of my party?
Awesome.
Awesome?
Awesome friends!
Awesome friends!
Awesome friends!
Awesome friends.
What's up?
The movie addresses things people don't want to think about sometimes.
And to see it done in a way where you're like, oh, I relate to this.
And I can laugh at that and I can laugh at myself.
I know this world and I know that money comes in between people.
You've been served.
What does that mean? Are you going to kill me or do we start breakdancing?
Evolution. I think it's about human evolution.
And that's why it's so relatable.
We're all trying to evolve.
I think we're all stuck.
I think we all want more.
I think we all feel like going out for a drink will help.
Or, you know, divorcing our spouse will help.
And really what it is is to challenge oneself and break through your own personal obstacles.
So I relate very much to that and I think a large audience will.
It follows that old saying, this too shall pass.
Just have a good time.
I mean, it's really a feel-good, rom-com, but unique.
I mean, it's chock-full of Asians.
Come on now. Who does that?
That's my boy.
Everyone involved, loved it.
Everyone involved was an amazing human being.
And that sounds really fru-fru and kumbaya.
But in a day and age where we're going and seeing things build,
blowing up where you go and see a film,
and every two minutes of the movie you're being taken out of it
because it's another name or another A-list or it's like,
we're inundated with stars, stars, stars, stars.
And you can't just sit and enjoy a story.
Because you are constantly being pulled out by who's who.
To have a film that you're so incredibly proud of,
you look around that set and everyone is there because they want to be.
Because they believe in this project.
They're not getting paid thousands.
Everyone did this at bare minimum because it's a beautiful story.
And it's true and it's honest.
And you can sit and eat popcorn and laugh and feel and relate.
And that's why I go to the movies.
I think it's a big step to go out and make your own feature.
I think that's what's so exciting about the micro-budget thing.
And also so scary about it,
because individuals now have the ability to make their own films.
But the support for that distribution model hasn't caught up to them yet.
It's not a big risk.
It's a big risk personally for the people making it.
It's a huge risk.
And the way that you're going to succeed in this business is by
gathering your community around the film
and then having it start from there and build in a grassroots way
instead of giant billboards on the side of the highway.
Audiences are so tricky these days because they're so spoiled,
I think.
Just because they're watching and expecting everything to be a studio budget level,
which I think people generally do.
And just see the movie for what it is,
which is just a really cool tale, you know.
It's very, it's so dear.
I want to know how it's possible that we only shot for 15 days, right?
And we only shot about eight hours a day and we finished a feature film.
And we did that with like no crew.
I still don't know how we did that.
It defies logic.
What?
I like to call my yoga workout a work in.
Okay.
As much as I was reading every single draft of the script that was coming in,
I watched every single cut of the movie that James was editing while he was editing it.
And the role that I very consciously decided to take was to be the sounding board.
It's an hour and a half where you can just enjoy a really well told story
that's got a human core.
It's got a lot of funny lines that when you're going to your refrigerator five hours later,
you're just going to remember and you're going to laugh.
And any small amount of time that can bring you that kind of joy,
goes through the movie.
Awesome sauce.
You right there Jake chilling y'all.
We're designed to spend money on things that give us immediate pleasure.
The booze has arrived. Let the awesome begin.
That ounce of pleasure does not lead to a lifetime of happiness.
What does? I don't know.
It's not trying to do anything but portray life as it happens.
More than half of marriages end in divorce.
So chin up dude, welcome to the majority.
American dream, huh?
I think you not only know that person but you can also say to yourself,
you know I've been that person.
And hopefully it will resonate with audiences and I hope they embrace this film
and the story that it tells.
And there's lessons to be learned.
You feel me?
You understand that you do?
And at the same time I think it's really funny.
I think what we have at the end of the day is a funny and lovely movie.
And I'm very, very proud of it.
And I'm very proud of my wife, Elizabeth Sandy, who was my partner in crime from the start.
It could be called a romantic comedy. It could be called a dramedy.
I don't really care. I think all movies are love stories.
We're actually out of time.
