![]() Though writer-director Andrew Kightlinger eventually makes the root of their hostility clear, it can be tough to power through those early interactions. From there, both characters passive-aggressively refuse to yield and watching their childish behavior, it’s hard to understand why they’re both being so awful to each other or even how they decided on this arrangement in the first place. Andie is on a “veggie kick” and declines, but by the next day, when Erwin does the same thing and she refuses to eat them, things become hostile. When Erwin makes dinner that first night, he simply chops up a couple of hot dogs and throws them in a can of beans. Much of that unpleasantness centers around food. Though they haven’t seen each other since Andie was 4, their antagonism is especially potent in those early scenes. However, when she arrives, Andie finds that her Aunt Tilly (Kathy Askew) is in the hospital and she is left to work the ranch with her beer-drinking and beer-bellied Uncle Erwin (Bates Wilder). Rothe plays Andie, a Los Angeles girl who decides to go to her aunt and uncle’s South Dakota cattle ranch to detox instead of rehab. Now, in Tater Tot & Patton, which also hits VOD today, she channels that star power into something a little more downbeat but equally rewarding. In the first film, she made audiences root for Tree despite her brattiness and in the sequel (which hits home video today), she convincingly brought Tree on an arc of both romance and grief. Though the Happy Death Day series would probably be a hit for its concept alone, what makes both films work so well is Jessica Rothe’s performance.
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