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as some of you may already know, i’m a big Office fan. and like most fans of the show, I had Jenna Fischer’s Lollilove on queue at netflix. it wasn’t placed that high on my queue so it had been lingering there on the list for months. over the weekend i finally got around to seeing it and i have to say that it was better than i expected. the movie had mixed reviews and i knew going in that it was a low budget affair so i wasn’t really expecting all that much. but since Jenna Fischer directed and co wrote the script, I knew i had to at least watch the thing. the movie was pretty short and was structured as a mock-documentary a la Spinal Tap. Jenna’s husband James Gunn also starred in it and the premise is about James and Jenna setting up a charity for the homeless. it’s pretty much a satire on the rich and their point of view on charities. it was interesting that James and Jenna used their real names and incorporated a lot of their own photos and even their wedding video into the film even though they were obviously not portraying themselves. it was also an interesting dynamic to watch between the two leads where James played it over the top and Jenna tried to at least be a bit more grounded in reality with her character.

*spoiler alert*. don’t go beyond this point if you’re planning on seeing the DVD in the near future..[also NSFW. sorry]

there were funny bits throughout the film but there were two major ones that i just loved:

1) there was a quick joke about the overweight woman that Jenna somehow convinced into believing she was just anorexic and the overweight person she saw in the mirror was in fact all in her mind. and then we see Jenna in an apron making a big pile of pancakes for the woman. ha ha!!

2) and the best bit in the movie comes at the end where we see illustrations done by James revolving around what would have happened to Jenna if he wasn’t around to save her from that awful homeless man… hee. hee…

here are a couple of screenshots of James’ illustrations…

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