Which among the two will have staying power in the movies? Will either of them be able to transcend those Teen Vogue/People cover stories and carve out a corner of permanent movie stardom? Radcliffe has ventured onto the stage, tried a non-Potter movie, found a little acclaim beyond the Hogwarts door. Pattinson, though, may have a much rougher time of it.
How to Be is one of those movies that's like your bete noir on the basketball court -- that one team that exposes every single one of your weaknesses. The film has him playing a London lad (David Mamet's Rebbecca Pidgeon plays his mom, seemingly an American) who aspires to be a poet, a singer-songwriter. He performs these morose and only slightly witty ditties that sound like Phoebe from Friends' outtakes. He wants to get it together, or failing that, find somebody to blame. When he stumbles across a Canadian self-help guru, he resolves to spend some inheritance from an uncle and bring the guy (Powell Jones, not remotely funny enough) over as his live-in life coach.
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