Fresno

Shannon and Martha ( Judy Greer, Natasha Lyonne )are sisters. And housekeeping maids at the same hotel. When they need to dispose of a dead body, things get a bit dicey. It starts out pretty serious, but turns into a fun, silly, caper. Ron Livingston is the next door neighbor. And Shannon's boyfriend. Or something. And a bit part for Beth Grant... Sissy from Sordid Lives. It's fun to watch. About halfway through, someone tells some pretty funny jokes about living in fresno. Can the girls get back to just being sisters without trying to fix each other? Silly but fun. Directed by Jamie Babbit. Story by Karey Dornetto. Who i believe is married to Babbitt!

Natasha lyonne's performance shines as a clunky lesbian hotel maid in Fresno while sex addicted sister played by a dead eyed judy greer drives the plot. aubrey plazas role is a secondary to the secondary plot, but shes believable and hilarious. the writing is a bit what you'd expect from a film like this and the plot has a couple holes and questionable moments. some huge secondary players in the cast, molly shannon, michael hitchcock, ron livingston. the problem w the film is judy greer's character is so shitty from the beginning and her arc is so unfulfilling for the viewer. i think shes a tremendous actress i just think her character was so written that shes unrelateable. Natasha lyonne was great, so was greer. i went in cold w no idea what the story was about and watched the whole thing. check it out!

Shannon (Judy Greer) and Martha (Natasha Lyonne) are sisters working as cleaning maids in a hotel. Shannon's life is a mess. She is a registered sex offender and a sex addict in recovery. She accidentally kills a guest after having sex with him. This has a lot of fun comedic actors and this is a fun black comedy premise. Then it loses its comedic steam. I assumed that we're doing a bit of body dump and being chased by cops. I also expected darker. This has its moments. Greer and Lyonne are two of my favorite comedic actresses. It should work better than this. Maybe I expected more screwball or slapstick considering the dead body hideaway premise. With all the comedic talents, this should be funnier.

First off it has to be said that the cast is stacked with good comedy actors who have all had great roles in other things, especially the two female leads. So when they are given this chance to shine with no excuse of male influence or bias it is a shame that the material itself is such a letdown. There is just nothing to this film, the story is basic and not really provocative or interesting enough to justify its creation. Unlike a film like Garden State, where the generally mundane story is balanced with directing choices that give the film a unique melancholic feel that suits these low-key themes, the director does nothing to highlight the stagnant flow of the plot. There isn't even really that much humour to pad out the barely-existent plot. Instead you just get two sisters talking in circles, while occasionally events happen around them, often with little to no provocation. You could argue that 'that's life', but even so the way it is presented is so unappealing that it has little merit as either entertainment or a think-piece. Overall this is still a movie, there is dialogue and characters and events occur over a feature length run-time, but if you watched it with the sound or screen off (or both) you wouldn't be missing much. If you want a female-orientated film that captures the trapped feeling of small town living then watch Ghost World, I don't know how all the fine elements that went into this came out so banal, but it looks like they mixed flour and water together and made paste.

"Addicted to Fresno" is one of those films that tries so hard to be this hip edgy dark comedy but the results are dreadfully unfunny. Natasha Lyonne plays the lead girl and she is a hotel maid and the film opens with Lyonne training her sex offender sister played by Judy Greer how to become a maid in the same hotel. Since sex offenders are so funny I am just amazed this didn't work here. The writer of this film must be obsessed with blow jobs because I have never seen a film with so many * jokes in the first 20 minutes. I say 20 minutes because I could not get passed the 20 minute mark because this movie was so bad. I have nothing against * jokes if they are at least somewhat FUNNY, not ONE of the jokes in this film was even remotely funny. I would settle for mildly amusing but no. I could not get through any more of this film and that is that. I skipped through a lot of it and saw Aubry Plaza doing another bad character. Oooh she's weird!! No, I can't tell you anymore about this one. Painfully bad and not even remotely amusing. The only laughs this movie probably got were the screenings loaded with family and friends all fake laughing.

Much, much better than I expected. I could easily have rated ADDICTED TO FRESNO with 8 stars! The story was interesting, with clever characters and a light-hearted attitude. The performances were perfect and believable... Recommended!

Natasha Lyonne and Judy Greer star in "Addicted to Fresno," a 2015 film. It seems to have been done on a low budget, but the movie looks good. Lyonne is Martha, who is allowing her sex-addicted sister Shannon (Greer), recently thrown out of rehab, to stay with her. She also gets her a job at the motel where she cleans. While having sex with a resident, Shannon accidentally kills him. The women cover the body with a sheet dump him in a laundry cart and take him to a pet cemetery, asking the owners to cremate their Great Dane and the laundry cart. Unfortunately the wife of the owner sees it's a body, and blackmails them for $25,000. When knocking over the local sex shop only elicits dildos, the women decide to rob a Bar Mitzvah. In the meantime, Martha has had to break up with her girlfriend, and finds a trainer at the gym is attracted to her - but she's too busy trying to take care of Shannon. Fun caper movie, full of sex talk and foul language, with good acting by both women. I thought the story and the situations were amusing. There is a slight serious undertone, but it fits in well with the film. The outtakes at the end are entertaining. I don't know if everyone realizes what a huge feat it is to do an independent film. From the credits at the end, many people were involved. Kudos to them.