Bob Trevino Likes It is a Sweet, Kind, and Emotionally Satisfying Comedy

A crowd-pleasing movie based upon supervisor Tracie Laymon’s experience chatting with a complete stranger online at a nadir in her life, Bob Trevino Likes It is a relocating tale that confirms great individuals do exist in this globe. With 2 terrific efficiencies by Barbie Ferreira and John Leguizamo—- playing 2 complete strangers that share the very same surname yet are or else unassociated—- the movie proceeds right into a relocating yet rather foreseeable event. Which’s all right. It’s likewise not simply a job of motion picture home cooking, with Ferreira revealing an unbelievable quantity of psychological susceptability, wit, and sometimes a vibrant naivety in a efficiency that’s a little bit extra intricate than at first fulfills the eye.

Ferreira plays 25-year-old Lily Trevino, the child of Robert (French Stewart), a current senior citizen that likes himself a gamer in his neighborhood trailer camp retirement home. He’s a economical jerk that grumbles concerning the price of dating, asking why 2 individuals require to have supper to get to recognize each various other. We discover Lily, underemployed as a caretaker to Dapne (Lauren Lolo Spencer), a female around her age, is the item of a busted home, consisting of a drug-addicted mom that deserted Robert and Lily.

Eventually, dad and child formally befall over an uncomfortable supper day where Robert (also known as Voucher Bob) takes his brand-new sweetheart Helene (Debra Red Stripe) and Lily to supper and Lily can not maintain her bio right after puzzling her tale for an additional female Robert is dating. It’s unpleasant sufficient when Bob locates the supper specials aren’t readily available that eve points truly go southern.

Drastically reduced from her dad’s life by protection at the retirement home, Lily requires to Facebook, where she locates Bob Trevino (Leguizamo), a building and construction supervisor that does not have a account image. Lily connects and they delicately strike up a discussion, discovering more concerning each various other. He’s childless and a workaholic, yet in a fairly satisfied marital relationship to Jeanie (Rachel Bay Jones). Jeanie bothers with her other half, particularly his absence of purposeful relationships while she requires to scrapbooking for factors that will certainly be exposed later on.

At Some Point Lily and Bob fulfill; Bob naturally comes to be a close friend and coach, doing things papas ought to provide for their grown-up children (home solutions, hanging out with each other). They ultimately invest entire days with each other, simply socializing and speaking about their stress and anxieties and concerns. Definitely this is not the sort of a motion picture for a cynic or nihilist, yet regarding captivating flicks concerning great individuals go, Bob Trevino Likes It checks package and after that some.

Performances inevitably lug this movie, Leguizamo toenailing the job as a generically kind yet silently scheduled guy that ultimately discovers to defend himself—- specifically when placed in a poor placement at the workplace. Lily, as well, discovers to look after herself and discovers that she is efficient in being enjoyed and moving on. Laymon’s manuscript side-steps any type of appointments Jeanie has concerning the partnership, producing a picture of a marital relationship that, once more, on its surface area might appear easy yet really feels genuine, built on actual battles and accomplishments.

Ferreira’s Lily likewise really feels rather genuine. At minutes she can remarkably shift from being foolish to emotionally at risk. While she does look for assistance to resolve her concerns, she asks a specialist for a fast solution since it’s all she can manage right now. Bob confirms that occasionally the best individuals simply enter your life at the correct time.

While the timeline is pressed from Laymon’s experience (happening over months as opposed to years) the psychological effect is greatly the very same, also if information are rather much less difficult than the real-life tale Laymon remembered throughout the movie’s Q&A. Obviously that is the nature of narrative filmmaking, and Bob Trevino Likes It is inevitably a satisfying job that might appear as well great to be real—- definitely not a poor point.

Bob Trevino Likes It premiered at SXSW 2024.