Tags: blog, film, comedy, drama, 2024, recommended

Date: Friday April 05th, 2024

Marissa Tomei is a tugboat captain

Poster for the film, segmented into thirds, each showing one of the characters. Marissa Tomei and Anne Hathaway look happy, either side of an unhappy Peter Dinklage

I’d much rather a film shoot for greatness and not achieve it, have eyes bigger than it’s belly. I’d rather watch something that reaches for the stars and falls short than something that has no interest in the stars at all.

Having said that, if you are going to do something slight and charming, do it like She Came to Me.

Peter Dinklage plays an opera composer suffering from writers block and whose marriage to Anne Hathaway may be on the rocks. A one afternoon stand with tugboat captain Marisa Tomei unlocks his creative process and gives everyone a lot more than he bargained for.

Everything about this film oozes effortless charm, humour and wit. I laughed the whole way through and enjoyed my time with the characters to the point I cared about them a lot. Even if the plot is light and more than a little contrived.

And Marisa Tomei is a tugboat captain. Wonderful.