Review of And Now a Word from Our Sponsor (2013) by David E — 10 Apr 2016

Adan Kundle (Bruce Greenwood), CEO of a major advertising agency, is discovered unconscious in front of a wall of TVs. When he wakes in the hospital, Adan can only communicate through advertising slogans. There he meets Karen Hillridge (Parker Posey), the hospital's Head of Charity Foundation, who has a past history with Adan. Unable to stay in the hospital, and while waiting for long term care placement, Karen reluctantly decides to take Adan into her home for what is to be a few days. Through his ongoing and sometimes inappropriate slogans, Adan slowly begins to affect Karen and the dysfunctional relationship she has with her daughter Meghan. Karen gradually uncovers Adan's background and his antagonistic business relationship with Lucas Foster, the president of the advertising agency that Adan owns. As Lucas moves closer to taking over the agency by attacking Adan's mental capacity, Adan becomes more involved in helping Karen and Meghan mend their relationship...

"And Now a Word from Our Sponsor" is more or less based on Bruce Greenwood´s screen presence whom is in a constant wacky, mentally-disjointed state just talking in advertising slogans. I assume the screenwriters thought it would be funny, but unfortunately it´s not. There´s simply no comedic value in my point of view. The character development is vague and the whole film looks like a tv production. The lovely Parker Posey tries her best to portray Karen, but there´s not that much to work with. There´s no real backstory explained, the general story isn´t fleshed out enough to make us care about the characters, and the magic realism ending feels just poor.