Kate (Lynn Collins) and Bobby (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is one indecisive couple. They can't figure out what they should do for the 4th of July so as they stand on the Brooklyn Bridge they flip a coin. You don't see what it lands on but once it lands the two take off running in opposite directions. It then goes into two story lines, Green and Yellow.
Green takes place in Brooklyn, where they are going to Kate's family barbecue. On the way, they find a stray dog wandering the streets with her license broken off. They take the dog with them until they can find her owners. They make fliers to try and find the dog's owner and start hanging them all around the neighborhood. While hanging up signs, they talk about Kate's pregnancy that she is hiding from her family. Being the indecisive couple that they are, they can't decide what they should do with the pregnancy. And on top of that they have to deal with family drama such as a younger sister who wants to follow her dreams, a brother who isn't around, and an uncle that might be suffering from dementia.
Yellow goes on in Manhattan where Bobby finds a phone in the back of taxi cab. He starts calling the last couple of numbers to try and find the owner to give it back. He gets a phone on the mysterious cell phone and answers it, getting some strange phone calls. When a man comes to get the phone he is shot down. Another man calls and tells him to give the phone to no one. They realize they are being followed and start running all over the city. Bobby starts looking through the phone and sees an email with a set of codes on it. When they get an offer from a different man to buy the phone from them for $500,000 they come up with a plan to sell to the original guy, who knows Bobby's name and address. They start coming up with a plan on how to get the money without getting killed.
Man those were pretty far extremes when it comes to the different stories. One is action pack story with chases and guns being shot at them. The other a melodramatic story about two people trying to decide if they should have a baby or not. It started off feeling like it was going to be a very pretentious independent film but it didn't really turn out that way. It was kind of interesting to see how the stories paralleled at times but the movie felt long considering it was basically two movies in one. And they were a little over the top with the colors. I think it would have worked better if they were more subtle about it instead of being like were in the yellow story you can tell by all the yellow around. Also, the one story seemed a little far fetched and then they got out of it pretty easy, if you ask me. But Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins did seem like they could be a couple. But I find it hard to believe that anyone would have trouble acting like they were Joseph Gordon-Levitt's girlfriend.
Rating: **
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