Austin Found (2017)

Austin Found: Directed by Will Raée. With Linda Cardellini, Skeet Ulrich, Craig Robinson, Kristen Schaal. A woman who is fed up with her mundane lifestyle hatches a scheme to make her family instant celebrities, but not everything goes as planned as her wild tempered ex-boyfriend starts to lose it.

“Linda Cardellini plays Leanne a scheming pageant mom who wants fame and money. She enters her 11 year old daughter Patty to various beauty pageants but her daughter has not time with the focus on peopleu0026#39;s outward appearance.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eLeanne hatches a plan with her former high school boyfriend, Billy (Skeet Ulrich) to safely kidnap Patty and hopes the resultant publicity will lead to media appearances and book deals.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBilly is hoping that this will bring him and Leanne together but he gets jealous to see Leanne and her husband, Donald on television playing the perfect couple, the husband is unaware of Leanneu0026#39;s conniving.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA local news reporter who was a victim of Leanneu0026#39;s bullying at school is suspicious of the story and follows Leanne meeting up with Billy. Meanwhile Patty bonds with Billyu0026#39;s simple friend JT (Craig Robinson) who becomes protective of Patty.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe film is stuck as to whether it is a dumb comedy, a biteless satire or a drama. Only JT and Patty generate some warmth, empathy and a moral outlook.”