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

Liz Toonkel

Rebecca Luke

Aimee Keen

Tom Lewis

Susan Leber

Will Reichel

Kim Fischer

Rupert Gregson-Williams

Robert Halmi Jr.

Shelly Rodriguez

Frank Prinzi

Jim Reeve

Kathleen Chopin

Kim Davis-Wagner

Justine Arteta

Drama

Hot Air

Spanknyce Films

United States of America

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.

English

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