Alia Shawkat, Sophia Takal, and a tree in a movie that may or may not be a murder mystery.
A Brooklyn couple gets in over their heads in this screwball thriller, which takes cues from Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window and Woody Allen’s Manhattan Murder Mystery. Director Lawrence Michael Levine plays Noah, a 36-year-old whiner who lives with his fiancée, Barri (Anna Kendrick look-alike Sophia Takal, Levine’s wife in real life). The bickering duo share an apartment with Barri’s best friend, Jean (Arrested Development’s fabulously freckled Alia Shawkat)…