It's a weight-loss narrative that also puts its lead character on a no-laugh diet
An early sequence in Brittany Runs a Marathon captures a feeling I hadn't seen in a movie before, at least not portrayed with such sharp specificity. In it, Brittany , a messy late-20-something who has just been given a dire health prognosis from a doctor she was attempting to scam for an Adderall prescription, decides to grim up and start running, for exercise.
The rest of Brittany Runs a Marathon is not quite so observant. It wants to be both a weight-loss and a body-acceptance narrative, and doesn't always navigate that minefield with grace.
But as it turns out, Colaizzo gets his story to that point by issuing judgmental diagnoses of Brittany's non-weight ills: She drinks too much, stays out too late, does too many drugs, eats unhealthily, shows up to work late, makes everything into a joke. Of course, all those things can be bad for you, and there are plenty of movies that seem not to realize how their characters'"funny" drinking habits would qualify as alcoholism in real life.
Worse, none of this is especially funny, because the movie more or less swears off being funny by around the halfway point, like a comedy trying out some kind of nontraditional no-laugh diet. Maybe Brittany Runs a Marathon is supposed to be a chance for Bell to stretch out dramatically, but there isn't much dramatic tension in marathon training when most of it happens in seasonal montages. The immediacy of that early, harrowing running scene melts away with the pounds.
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