Failing Better Now

Mia has just turned thirty and is struggling to find herself.  Her writing career is floundering, she’s just lost her job and she can’t seem to find her way.  A smart mouth, bad attitude and general flakiness aren’t helping either.  One weekend, Mia’s uptight sister Anna agrees to let her babysit her beloved cat, Bernard, and wouldn’t you know it, Mia loses him.

On her search through New York’s East Village looking for Bernard, Mia falls for a surprisingly sincere rocker, Ethan, who challenges her to confront whatever it is that’s holding her back from getting her act together.  Over the course of the weekend, Mia innocently creates havoc wherever her whim takes her.  Does she get the guy?  Will she find Bernard?  Can she get it together before she has to move to her mother’s house in New Jersey and become a florist?

With all the trappings of a classic romantic comedy, the film is infused with a quirkiness and honesty that is missing from typical Hollywood fare.  Alternately hilarious, tragic, romantic and offbeat, Failing Better Now is a universal story of that time when you realize it’s time to grow up – or at least figure out what grown up means.  It’s about reconciling the pursuit of your dreams with the reality of the world around you.  West Coast Premiere.