Justin Long in The Wave, which opens tonight at Grand Illusion.
If The Hangover took a hit of LSD and melted into Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, then tripped into the space-time continuum, hitting A Scanner Darkly and Waking Life on its way down, you’d get something like The Wave.
Justin Long (a prolific film actor who you probably know best as “Mac” in that series of Apple commercials) stars as Frank, a corporate lawyer who is about to make a big chunk of change for his firm after finding a discrepancy in an insurance claim. He also seems to kind of hate his life, or at least it’s so mundane and his wife is such a pain that it doesn’t take much for his friend and colleague Jeff (Donald Faison) to talk him into enjoying a (Tuesday) night out on the town.
