With this humiliating turn of events she is forced to move in with her assistant Claire ( Kristen Bell) and Claire’s daughter Rachel (Ella Anderson). A wildly successful business titan, self-centered to the point of defining the term, and a popular motivational speaker, Darnell is ranked as the 47th-richest woman in the world - that is until some illegal insider trading lands her in prison and, eventually, penniless when she finally gets out. And she gets a lot of them, even if shamelessly, in The Boss, which ought to be re-titled Melissa McCarthy’s The Boss since she is virtually the whole show here, bringing the character of Michelle Darnell to the big screen after first creating her in L.A.’s The Groundlings comedy troupe many years ago.Īs I say in my video review above, think of Donald Trump meets Leona Helmsley meets Tony Robbins meets Martha Stewart and you have a pretty good idea of who Michelle Darnell is. Melissa McCarthy proves again she has no current peer as a physical comedienne: She’s the new Lucille Ball, with no pratfall too much in order to get a laugh.
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