'The Stand In': Film Review | Hollywood Reporter
12/11/2020 Drew Barrymore stars as both a famous comic actor and her on-set substitute in a comedy directed by Jamie Babbit. In theory, Four Lions and But I'm a Cheerleader, plus some excellent TV episodes for Silicon Valley and Russian Doll). There are a ton of names in cameo roles (Ellie Kemper, Andrew Rannells and Lena Dunham to name but a few), all enlisted in what could have been a smart rethink of those sclerotic comedy tropes: the lookalike-role-swap and the ambitious-understudy-who eclipses-the-star. Alas, it is a weirdly inert, obstinately unfunny work, starting from the opening ...
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