Hearts audibly sink when Sid Straw (Tony Hale) cranks up his chummy banter. His colleagues can barely bring themselves to make eye contact when he attempts to engage; his sister-in-law has all but banned him from family events. So when Sid claims to have been college friends with The Hunger Games star Elizabeth Banks, there’s a degree of cynicism, which is not helped by the fact that social media neophyte Sid inadvertently and very publicly starts bombarding her with cringey messages.
The picture goes full bore on the skin-crawling creepiness of Sid’s slow-motion car crash into internet ignominy – it’s amusing, in a fist-chewingly uncomfortable way – but it then attempts to redeem the character in the final act, not wholly successfully.
On digital platforms from 14 November
