Finding Amanda is a dark, stupid, disturbing, and wildly off-putting film. The acting here, except from Matthew Broderick, is bad, the story is lurid and incredibly unbelievable. Broderick stars as Taylor Mending, an alcoholic gambler who is...
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Finding Amanda is a dark, stupid, disturbing, and wildly off-putting film. The acting here, except from Matthew Broderick, is bad, the story is lurid and incredibly unbelievable. Broderick stars as Taylor Mending, an alcoholic gambler who is having troubles with his wife. Taylor finds out one day that his 20-year old niece Amanda, played by Brittany Snow is a pill popping hooker in Vegas. He really doesn't care at first but after fighting with his wife, he decides to go to Vegas and get Amanda into rehab to make it up to her. His wife of course knows that the only reason he is going is to gamble. You stop caring for the guy after about the tenth time he lies to his wife for no apparent reason. In Vegas, Taylor finds his niece. The entire story is extremely disturbing and very off putting. Amanda is buying drugs with her uncle, and talking about hooking and he really doesn't seem to mind. Brittany Snow is really bad here as Amanda, she is a slutty addict outside but in her house she is some weird obsessed housewife. I just can't believe that this script could be taken seriously, this is like a live action cartoon, the characters are 2 dimensional, totally dry, and quite frankly not that smart. The constant swings of Amanda's personality become overwhelmingly annoying, like the entire movie. I did think though that Broderick did try in this thing, but in the end there is only so much you can do with material that is just total crap. The movie did have it's moments, but in the end it is a very sick and disgusting film, and you should stay away from it at all costs.