Dreamz with a Z

Not exactly V for Vendetta but American Dreamz (with a z) is pretty darn good. Directed by Paul Weitz, who directed the wonderful In Good Company, About A Boy, and American Pie, the movie is a pretty daring satire, though I wish it weren't. It doesn't have the perfect pitch of Thank You For Smoking, and it cares too much about its characters to hate them. Mandy Moore and Hugh Grant were both good, actually, and Dennis Quaid turned G.W. Bush into a hero of sorts. It wasn't bad. Not as good as the other movies I mentioned, but about the only thing the Grand isn't playing this week that I really wanted to see.