Not much to see here but a good-natured time waster (whose 83 minutes or so means you don't waste much time). Christopher Gorham plays the writer of a wildly popular set of novels about a Merman (a la Twilight) that he's embarrassed to have written (under the pseudonym "Sally Carmichael.") However, his publishers won't let him out of contract given the upcoming movie version of his books. Through a series of circumstances (involving a pretty bookshop owner), Gorham write an article criticizing his own books that goes viral. It's all resolved neatly (as these kinds of movies are) but Gorham does a good job as the anxiety-ridden author who gets outed as the author and has to make peace with popularity of his books. A stronger script could have explored these themes a bit more effectively and I would have jettisoned the character of the overenthusiastic actor who ends up revealing Gorham's identity. The movie kind of slows way down whenever he's on the screen. Wait through credits though for a scene from the movie version of the Merman books. It's brief but a real hoot!
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