12/8/22 – Karen is an entitled middle-aged woman whose demanding nature has alienated her neighbors and family. After a series of incidents displaying her privilege and prejudice, Karen receives an ‘intervention’ by some unconventional spirits.
Q-tips say: Yes, See it! It has everything you’d expect: a terrible haircut, a scene where the main character demands to speak to a manager, and acts of passive-aggressive racism. Although the film is slightly better than you might expect.
Michele Simms plays Karen, a bitter, wine-guzzling woman who makes unreasonable demands at restaurants and antagonizes the very nice African-American family living next door. She receives the standard visits from three ghosts. The Ghost of Christmas Present (Rolin Alexis) is a gay Black man – Karen’s worst nightmare – who takes her back to a formative childhood trauma while simultaneously allowing the movie to engage in a lot of lame double entendres. The Ghost of Christmas Present (Leyla Lawrence) reveals that the neighbor girl she’s been mean to is battling leukemia. The Ghost of Christmas Future (Lee Karlinski) is a “dude” who shows her how no one misses her when she’s dead because of how poorly she treated people during life.