Hickey

FILM: Hickey
DIRECTOR: Alex Grossman
RATING: 5/10

In his debut feature, Director Alex Grossman strives for quirky but treads dangerously close to tiresome. Ryan is a high school senior with a serious teenage crush on coworker Carly. He also has a full-ride scholarship offered to him at MIT, which just so happens to be the school of his choice. He's considering giving up the scholarship however, in order to stay in Los Angeles and continue his crush (mind you he has no actual plans to tell Carly how he feels). On the day our story takes place, Ryan and the gang have just received word that the electronics store where they all work is going to be closed that very day, so Ryan concocts a plan to save the store, thus saving his imaginary relationship with Carly. Sprinkle in a host of quirky characters and a bizarre relationship with his mother that is both poorly developed and poorly resolved and Hickey nearly drains itself of all its own merit. Promising but insecure. This film is packed with so much stuff that in the end, you're left with almost nothing.