Vanessa Parise Is the World's Noblest Filmmaker
4/7/08 at 1:30 PM

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We don't bestow that title lightly. But the summary on Apple.com somehow makes room to note (between sporadically describing Jack and Jill's Love Story–knockoff plot) that Parise always makes sure that her films are "life-affirming, multi-dimensional and cognizant of the world's follies," and that her lead couple (played by Freddie Prinze Jr. and Taryn Manning) "believe in Fair Trade" and "are animal advocates."
But shouldn't a romantic-comedy director have impressive educational credentials, you say? Not to worry! Back to the "synopsis": "Parise graduated Magna Cum Laude in Biology from Harvard and was accepted into Harvard Medical School (as well as Stanford, Yale and Columbia, to name a few)." Is she brave? You bet – she made "the courageous decision" to give one of her characters cystic fibrosis! But does she work hard enough? Apple's plot summary goes on at stupefying length to describe Parise's efforts to finance, write, direct, cast, staff, and sell Jack and Jill vs. the World — efforts which, if we really want to go out on a limb, probably included writing the film's synopsis for the Apple Movie Trailers site. It's all in a day's work for the World's Noblest Filmmaker. —Mac Rogers
Jack and Jill Vs the World [Apple.com trailers]
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