5 Star Day puts a great deal of effort into attempting to create the equally simple yet unnecessary figure out that horoscopes in the daily newspaper are usually not accurate.
The film’s efforts at proving a point, more or less the majority of people already assumed to know, the fragments of intelligent concepts and developments along with clever storytelling become completely forgotten. Show us something which does not turn out to be common knowledge.
During one part of the narration of the movie, the protagonist says to us, As per Fox News, 29% of the American society believes in astrology, despite the not-so-scientific community considering it a part of superstition rather than a branch of science. However, the population continues to blindly follow. This assumption has two overarching issues throughout the film. One, There is no way of 71 percent of the people not believing which drastically limits how the film can explore, and two, that number came from Fox’s news channel, consequently it was surely not right, or fabricated, well in any case.
When the movie begins, Jake Gibson (Cam Gigandet) is experiencing an unfortunate day reserved for truly the most pathetic movies.
On his birthday, after reading his horoscope, he gets fired from his job and goes home to find his girlfriend (Julianna Guill) sleeping with another guy. As if that wasn’t enough, he gets a plumbing disaster, loses his apartment, and has his beloved vintage sports car stolen. To make things worse, his apartment is also robbed Fate might have thrown even more crap at this guy and I cannot remember.
Because his ex was an ardent believer of astrology (as so clearly depicted in the flashback), Jake now seeks to disprove the entire concept as a big middle finger to her.
As it turns out, he has a really cool plan, which just so happens to be the most unique plan in the whole movie. Since horoscopes are computed based on the time location and date of one’s birth, he sets out on a mission to see who else was born in the same ward at the same hospital on the same day at the same time as him. He sets out on the bizarre mission to determine whether any of them had the five-star day that the newspaper column so arrogantly promised and ends up getting sidetracked along the way.
Jake’s search shows that there are four babies, himself included, who were born around that time.
Additionally, he is capable of locating the current active full names, married names, and physical addresses of all of these children. I wonder which website had all of this information? Wow, talk about transparency!
So regardless of his enrollment at the University of California Berkeley, he completes his information collection by traveling back home to Chicago, stopping at Atlantic City and New York on the way.
His next step is attempting to establish contact with these individuals, and learn how their circumstances parallel, or contrast, with his. The difficulty with this approach is that Jake, with his breezy arrogance, nonexplanatory bewildering persona and rampant unfathomability, in essence frightens off everyone who come within the range of his potential target.
Unquestionably, people treating the guy like a lunatic is absolutely his concern. Instead of, you know, explaining to people what he is trying to accomplish with his paper which actually makes for a rather interesting excuse he attempts to sweet talk his way into their lives only to, in the end, confess to what it is he aims to do.
He encounters a beautiful single mother (Jena Malone) who is battling for custody of her daughter, an inner city social worker Brooklyn Sudano, daughter of the disco diva Donna Summer, and a casino lounge singer on the staircase of a drunken stupor (Max Hartman).
With each step, Jake is becoming more and more involved with the lives of his counterparts He is on a cross-country America trip looking for temporal clarity that does not exist and sharing brief yet defining experiences with others, which is believed to help him discover himself.
It sounds great in theory, but I don’t know if I buy it. He sort of is present when things happen, but he does not seem to learn from or overly experience them.
In a more advanced plot twist, he goes to New York City to correct a wrong done to one of his new friends. He misses his plane and the opportunity to present his thesis, but when he gets to New York, he reasons it is not his place to do anything.
If that is the case, then what exactly is he doing there? With every chance he gets which tends to be rather rare and absolutely baffling he begins to unsatisfactorily set right the wrongs. One way being “retrieving” a stolen piece of jewelry he keeps the most amount of money he can while still affording to do so.
But the movie expects that we appreciate the fact that he provided aid to a stranger while doing the bare minimum. Awesome.
This is also a problem of the actor. I don’t know if the problem is with the character’s writing or with Gigandet’s performance, but Jake is a taciturn narcissistic jerk for most of the film. That is unfortunate because, with nuanced actresses like Malone, Sudano and Guill, who are all lovingly shipwrecked in their scenes with him, he is working.
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