A Movie Review: Go

Go. Claire (Katie Holmes) is having a conversation with some individual in a cafe. She's saying how random life is. We then flash back to a grocery store where Claire works. Along with Claire, we meet Ronna (Sarah Polley), Simon (Desmond Askew) and Mannie (Nathan Bexton). (Side note: I swear that Desmond Askew looks exactly like Simon Pegg.) The movie starts at this store with three different story lines. First, we follow Ronna's story line. She's about to get evicted from her apartment. (I do believe she later claims to be seventeen so who knows why she's living on her own). She picks up an additional shift from Desmond. She's approached by two individuals, Adam (Scott Wolf) and Zach (Jay Mohr), who claim that they usually buy drugs off of Desmond. Desperate for money, she tells them she'll get them some. To do so, she goes to Simon's drug dealer, Todd (Timothy Olyphant), and convinces him to sell her some drugs.

The second story line follows Simon. He gives Claire the extra shift because he wants to head off to Las Vegas with his buddies. He gets into a load of trouble there with his main friend Marcus (Taye Diggs). They end up stealing a car and heading off to a strip club. Simon does some inappropriate touching and the bouncer comes in to rough him up. The bouncer didn't notice that Simon had carried in a gun with him (a gun he found in the car). Simon shoots the bouncer. Simon and Marcus get out of there quickly.

The third story line follows Adam and Zach. They're actually actors that we notice on the television in the grocery store's staff room. They've actually been caught with drugs and so the police are forcing them to work a sting. Their target is Simon, but they end up targeting Ronna who is taking Simon's shift. Adam and Zach find out that the cop, Burke (William Fichner) they're working for is one strange dude and that Burke's wife, Irene (Jane Krakowski), is just as strange.

This is one of those six degrees of connection movies that just sort of works.  I know that a teen movie versus a drug crime movie (though drugs are involved in both movies) are not at all similar, but while watching Go I was thinking about a similar six degrees type movie called Traffic that was made around the same time.  Traffic vs Go:  no comparison.  Of course, it might have something to do with the fact that I'm no longer anywhere close to being a teenager and so my taste in movies has changed.