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IN A WORLD...​

Lake Bell  •  USA  • ​  2013
93 mins  •  HD  •   R16 Sexual references & offensive language
 
In a world where male voiceover artists reign supreme, one woman must struggle against the odds to earn the respect of her famous father and make her voice heard...

"In some ways a late bloomer’s coming-of-age story, it is also, in no particular order, a show-business satire, a family drama, a feminist parable and a sweet romantic comedy. Not that any of these labels can do justice to the originality of Ms. Bell’s creative voice."
- A.O. Scott, NY Times

"Engaging and eccentric" - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

Winner Best Screenplay, Sundance 2013
With: Lake Bell​ (​Carol), Fred Melamed (Sam), Rob Corddry (Moe), Alexandra Holden (Jamie), Demetri Martin (Louis), Eva Longoria​ (as herself), Ken Marino (Gustav), Tig Notaro (Cher), Nick Offerman (Heners), Michaela Watkins (Dani), Geena Davis (as herself)
Director/Screenplay: Lake Bell
Producers:
 Lake Bell, Mark Roberts, Jett Steiger, Eddie Vaisman
Production co: 3311Productions, In A World, Team G

Photography: Seamus Tierney
Editor: Tom McArdle
Music: Ryan Miller

REVIEWS

"Closer to the snarky satire of Thank You for Smoking than the back-slapping of Soapdish, this snappy treat tickles up belly laughs from the golden larynx of the entertainment industry, as it delves into the strangely competitive world of the voiceover artist.  Writer, director and rising star Lake Bell plays voice-coach and wannabe VO star Carol, struggling to escape from the jowly shadow of her father, a pitch-perfect portrait of pomposity from the mighty Fred Melamed.
With former "voice of God" Don LaFontaine now holding forth in heaven itself, a string of increasingly throaty growlers line up to snag the trailer for the forthcoming Amazon Games "quadrilogy" – a return to the kind of "epic cinema" for which only the titular ad-line (once LaFontaine's trademark) will do.  Working with insider knowledge, but without descending to smug self-referentiality, Bell takes swipes at gender inequality, familial dysfunction and professional back-stabbing with an air of unease that is both pointed and entertaining.  There's screwball romance buried in there too, but crucially it takes a backseat to the story of a woman making it in a man's world, with Lake seeing little need to drench the most brusque moments of cynicism in schmaltz.   A cameo from Geena Davis is particularly tart, and all the better for it."

 - Mark Kermode, The Observer

"If you've never heard of Lake Bell, get cracking.  She's a live-wire.  Often the best thing in silly movies (No Strings Attached) and stupid TV (Miss Match), Bell has kicked out the jams with her first feature as writer and director.  It's an exhilarating comic rush called In a World . . . and in it she spins inspired lunacy around the subject of, among other things like family dysfunction, sexual healing and female empowerment, voiceovers...

Bell's script, which won a deserved writing award at Sundance, ...  In fact, Bell the writer, director, producer and actress knows how to set a savvy trap. While we're laughing, she pulls the rug out, making us see Carol's world as a microcosm for the world every working woman lives in. That she does it with subtlety, humor and touching gravity marks Bell as a filmmaker to watch." 

- ​Peter Travers, Rolling Stone



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