Extract (2009) starring Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, Ben Affleck, Kristen Wiig. Bateman stars as Joel, the owner of a factory that makes food extracts, and Kunis plays Cindy, a young con artist who gets herself hired on at the factory with an eye to horning in on an accident settlement. Affleck plays Dean, Joel's friend and confidant, who somehow manages to talk Joel into hiring a gigolo to have sex with Joel's wife (drugs are involved). There is one genuine laugh-out-loud moment in this comedy, but otherwise it is not well written, loosely edited and carelessly directed. The separate elements that go to make up the film are entertaining, but they don't hang together very well. It's obviously a low-budget independent film, and it has the look and feel of a made-for-TV movie. Still, I rather enjoyed it, or at least parts of it. It was nice to see Kristen Wiig in something besides "Saturday Night Live." And the subtitles are very good -- yellow outlined in black, very legible. Grade: B
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