Unfortunately, a movie with this small a budget can only afford sound-alikes for its soundtrack. Especially in the flashback scenes, director Lena Khan – in her feature debut – owes a lot to his style. THE TIGER HUNTER owes a debt to all those movies, as well as Wes Anderson. If all of this sounds like any other number of “trying to make it in the big city” movies, well you’re right. When Sami learns his childhood crush Ruby (Karen David), he and his pals hatch a scheme to pass the boss’ palatial estate off as his own home. He makes friends with the boss’ son (Jon Heder, in what amounts to his biggest role in nearly a decade) and his Dukes of Hazzard-obsessed roommate (Rizwan Manji). Sami takes a job as a draftsman for a company making microwaves, though they struggle with finding one that both fully heats frozen food and doesn’t explode. Sami ends up sharing an apartment with nearly a dozen other immigrants, all working low-end jobs while they wait for their big break. So he takes the leap and moves to Chicago, where he assumes he’ll land a job and house as soon as they see his qualifications.Īs anyone who has struggled to find a good job in their field can tell you, that’s not how it works. But now it’s the late 1970s: his father has since passed, and his engineering degree is useless in a town that’s barely industrialized.
His Sami Malik lives in the shadow of his dashing father, who protected his Indian village from tigers. His only defining characteristic is his determination, which doesn’t make for the most dynamic lead (at least since he’s not training in a sport here). Now THE TIGER HUNTER doesn’t really offer him one as rich as Abed. And of course, John Oliver and Donald Glover need no introduction anymore.īut Pudi, thoroughly charming as the socially awkward film student Abed, hasn’t found a solid role yet. Alison Brie has GLOW, Gillian Jacobs has LOVE, Yvette Nicole Brown is on this fall’s THE MAYOR, Joel McHale had a show last year as well as commercials and movies. Sadly, Danny Pudi is the only cast member who hasn’t gone onto bigger things after COMMUNITY came to an end in 2015. Kip Mooney // Film Critic THE TIGER HUNTERĬast: Danny Pudi, Rizwan Manji, Jon Heder, Karen David and Kevin Pollak
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