"Jason Biggs directed and stars in "Untitled Home Invasion Romance," as Kevin, who tries to woo back his estranged wife by having an actor friend pretend to be a burglar. Kevin thinks that if she sees him bravely confronting the burglar, she will respect his strength and courage and fall in love with him again. Meaghan Rath plays Suzie, the wife who turns out to have enough strength and courage for both of them."
"It's a high concept, right? A guy fakes a break-in in an attempt to win back his wife by playing the hero, and someone ends up dead. Even in the broadest comedies that I've been a part of-and this is the Eugene Levy School of Comedy-is ground it, ground it, ground it. How deep can you take this? But I just saw the movie more as sort of more like a sort of Coen brothers."
Jason Biggs directed and stars as Kevin, a man who stages a fake burglary to win back his estranged wife, Suzie. Meaghan Rath plays Suzie, a character who demonstrates unexpected strength and courage that ultimately outshines Kevin's plan. The film negotiates tonal extremes between broad comedy and tense thriller, favoring grounded emotional truth and moments of uneasy humor. Production leaned on a "ground it" comedic approach emphasizing depth rather than slapstick broadness. The result emphasizes Suzie's agency and reframes the home-invasion conceit as a vehicle for both dark humor and character revelation.
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