It's not often that a small movie, featuring a handful of characters sneaks up on you during a busy late year movie season. But that's just what Bob Trevino Likes It manages to pull off. Featuring an overweight, low self esteem young woman, Lily (Barbie Ferreira), whose father, Bob Trevino (French Stewart) continuously neglects her to the point that she mistakenly adds the wrong Bob Trevino as a friend on Facebook. Turns out that this Bob (John Leguizamo) she thinks is her dad is just a construction company manager, himself bored with an uneventful life. Together, each fills the other's emptiness in life, and a surprising friendship emerges, one that transcends cliches and formulaic movie relationships.
Despite some less-than-authentic parts (Lily's father is such a piece of shit that I could hardly believe people like him existed), I was ultimately won over by the final scene. It was so heart-wrenching and that even the biggest stoics will be moved. Leguizamo has finally, in his mid 60s, done something he'd never done before: he's created a character that many a person would be glad to call a friend.
☆☆☆
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