Cast:
- Eugenio Derbez as Antonio Flores
- Samara Weaving as Olivia Allan
- Max Greenfield as Vincent Royce
- Carmen Salinas as Cecilia Flores
- Betsy Brandt as Kathryn Royce
- Marisol Nichols as Isabel Flores
Synopsis & Insights:
The Valet is a fun rom-com which revolves around absurd characters and roman relationship, identity and stardom. Eugene Derbez plays the character of Antonio Flores who is a decent and hardworking car parking attendant but gets some undesired attention when famous actress Olivia Allan played by Samara Weaving is pictured with her lover Vincent Royce who is a married man and Max Greenfield plays the role of the lover.
In order to hide the affair, her publicist comes up with a scheme to make Antonio pretend to be Olivia’s boyfriend, unleashing a number of funny and sweet moments when the two try to outrun the quasi-couple charade. Eugenio Derbez was able to inject warmth and charm into the character of Antonio and made him more bearable. Offering a comedic as well as emotionally sobering depiction of an ordinary individual thrust into the excessive and often shallow glamour of Hollywood. He is such a man and strives to handle both the foreign tumult with all the perils surrounding it and the traditional particularities representative for the normal family.
Samara Weaving’s Olivia is quite an interesting character: a bright young woman with a successful career, charming everyone with her beauty and talent, but hiding the overbearing responsibilities of fame and of herself. The interaction between Antonio and Olivia is humorous as well as real as they start experiencing growth from the friendship created between them.
In another aspect of the character, Vincent played by Max Greenfield in the film adds a great amount of comical relief in the film where he is the catering businessman with all the fidgets of a married man having an extra marital affair. The supporting roles of Carmen Salinas as Antonios mother and Marisol Nicholas as his separated wife Isabel add significance to the plot as it centralizes family values and integrity.
The Valet is the kind of movie that you would go out and watch again thoroughly enjoying it and yet at the same time holding deeper references toward human relationships especially regarding love, as well as self perception and societal stature. Its general idea of a plain joe getting caught up in a ruckus is good for some comic relief, however, it also touches on more serious subjects like the shallow nature of Hollywood and the importance and methodology to retain ones self identity.
Viewers who want to be entertained by an endearing and over-the-top romantic comedy will have no regrets hitting The Valet. The film is subtle yet provocative. The combination of humor, romance and emotional scenes makes it such an excellent film that caters for different types of audiences.
