Awkwardly bridging the gap between “My Fair Lady” retelling and an episode of “Southern Charm,” Justin and Christian Long’s directorial debut, “Lady of the Manor,” is both a southern-friend romantic comedy and “Casper”-esque tale of ghostly friendship.
Mining broad comedy out of the story of a wayward stoner Hannah (Melanie Lynskey— proving that she owed the Longs a favor) who attempts to reform her lazy ways, with the help of the spectral Lady Wadsworth (Judy Greer – essentially playing an antebellum Judy Greer), with a love triangle thrown in to pad out the runtime, the Longs’ debut film may be Frankensteined together from disparate genres.
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