No doubt all these things did actually happen in Elliott and Sadowskyj's real lives, but unexplained and unexamined in the context of the movie, they simply fail to convince.
The script, acting and directing are deeply uncertain and misjudged, with huge tonal lurches that make for something that's neither funny nor convincing on any level, and just wouldn't come up to the standard of the humblest TV drama or comedy.
