It's just an extended anecdote — a ragtag "Candide" of city bureaucracy — but Byrne reveals the humanity of a no-hoper fighting the system.
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Courtesy of Vertical The “Marty Supreme” question that got old in about five minutes — was the title character likable enough? —shouldn’t even be allowed in the same room with Rose Byrne. From the annoyingly upscale “perfect” boss’s wife in “Bridesmaids” to the miserable mother who becomes cosmically unglued in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” she has made a career of playing characters who are haughty and testy, glamorously difficult and hard to cozy up to. But that’s part of her pizzazz as an actor. Who would want Rose Byrne to give you the warm fuzzies? (Though I’m betting that if you cast her in a Colleen Hoover soaper, she’d nail it.) “Tow” is a minor indie that doesn’t always make the right moves, but Byrne seizes her character and turns the question of whether you like her or not into the film’s dramatic motor.
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