Will & Harper

Name: Will & Harper
Director: Josh Greenbaum
Genre: Travel, Documentary
Released: 2024
Duration: 1 h 54 min
Cast: Will Ferrell, Harper Steele

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Travel
Documentary

2024
Josh Greenbaum
114 mins
15

Summary

Documentary. Actor Will Ferrell and his friend and colleague, the former Saturday Night Live writer Harper Steele, take a road trip across the USA in order to reconnect following Harper's coming out as transgender.

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Review

A star rating of 3 out of 5.

James Mottram

Longtime friends Will Ferrell and Harper Steele go on a journey of discovery in this well-meaning road-movie documentary. Ferrell, the A-list comic actor from Anchorman, reunites with his former Saturday Night Live colleague Steele, a veteran writer who has undergone gender reassignment since last meeting up with Ferrell. As a way to rekindle their friendship, the pair decide to drive from New York to Los Angeles, taking in the good old Americana of bars, steak houses and sports games. Directed by Josh Greenbaum (Barb & Star Go to Vista del Mar), the film has an amiable, shaggy-dog quality, conjured by Ferrell and Steele's good-natured bonhomie. Some of it flops (getting celebrity chum Kristen Wiig to write a theme song is a non-starter) and Ferrell's comic schtick can grate, not least a scene in which he dresses up as Sherlock Holmes. But the film makes serious points about transphobia and when it lets Steele take centre stage, it poignantly shows that it's never too late in life to find happiness.

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7.4/10