Movie Review: Best Sellers (2021) on Starz
If you're into books and authors and wonderfully flawed characters, Best Sellers is the film for you. Aubrey Plaza plays the owner of a strapped boutique publishing house desperate to unearth a money making author from its backlog of past successes. She stumbles onto boozing, irritable old cuss Michael Caine, who owes them a manuscript but isn't happy to comply. (Who swears better on film than Caine?) Plaza gives the driver in Drive My Car a run for her money, driving Caine around (not sure where, actually) in his Jaguar promoting his "bull-shite" book during a raggedy book tour first in bookstores, then bars, hoping to revive the glory—and sales—of his original bestseller of 50 years ago. But wait, there isn't more! And the two discover way more to the secret life of a successful book sale than Plaza's character ever dreamed. Well done and Caine is his crusty, soddy best as a character actor playing a leading role. I rate Best Sellers A++ for Amazing storytelling.
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