![]() ![]() Unlike a lot of actors playing comedians in movies, Winstead seems like she’s been doing open mic nights for years, and as Nina she’s genuinely funny on stage. ![]() She’d prefer if she could put more about her lonely, tumultuous personal life into her comedy, but chooses mostly to stick with sex and gross-out humor, the kind of the thing she knows will make mostly male comedy audiences comfortable. ![]() Though Nina fires off jokes on stage with a sexy, almost masculine swagger, she also explosively stress vomits after every show. Writer-director Eva Vives’ debut feature about a woman who makes a profession out of turning her unhappy life into jokes comes at just the right time, when the world is only just starting to understand the breadth and width of female anger. “Isn’t it great how all of the sudden they know that we’re funny?” comedy club owner and former stand-up Pam ( Pam Murphy) tells her younger counterpart, Nina Geld ( Mary Elizabeth Winstead) – one of many moments in All About Nina that lands as a joke, but leaves a bitter, all too realistic aftertaste. This piece was originally posted on Alcohollywood Mary Elizabeth Winstead lashes back at the stiflingly male-dominated world of standup comedy in Eva Vives’ acerbic, stunning debut. ![]()
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