{"id":2241,"date":"2025-03-21T01:13:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T01:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/bob-trevino-likes-it-found-family-emotional-honesty-great-acting\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T01:13:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T01:13:22","slug":"bob-trevino-likes-it-found-family-emotional-honesty-great-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/bob-trevino-likes-it-found-family-emotional-honesty-great-acting\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bob Trevino Likes It\u2019: Found Family, Emotional Honesty, Great Acting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John Leguizamo and Barbie Ferreira in Bob Trevino Likes It<\/em> Courtesy of Roadside Attractions<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In an age when we all get daily inundations of text message invites from strangers with weird area codes (\u201cDo you have plans for tomorrow? Have dinner together?\u201d), it\u2019s almost impossible to imagine a time when such a request could be innocent and well-meaning rather than a nefarious attempt to hollow your bank account.<\/span><\/p>\n

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BOB TREVINO LIKES IT<\/b>\u00a0\u2605\u2605\u2605\u00a0<\/strong>(3\/4 stars<\/em>)<\/strong>
Directed by:<\/strong> Tracie Laymon<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>
Written by: Tracie Laymon<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/strong>
Starring: <\/strong>Barbie Ferreira, John Leguizamo, French Stewart, Rachel Bay Jones, Lauren \u2018Lolo\u2019 Spencer<\/span>
Running time:<\/strong> 102 mins.<\/p>\n\n<\/td>\n

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Bob Trevino Likes It<\/span><\/i>, the feature film debut from award-winning short film and web series director Tracie Laymon<\/a>, wistfully and powerfully recaptures a more guileless era in our digital lives\u2014which the Facebook interface and the lead character\u2019s cracked second-gen iPhone put at around 2010.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The phone was the same one used by Laymon during that period, and the movie is filled with moments that would be hard to believe had they not actually happened to the Texas-born filmmaker. But what really allows this throwback indie to pop with vitality is the emotional honesty brought to bear by its remarkable group of actors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The cast is co-headed by John Leguizamo<\/a>, a Tony and Emmy Award winner who has notched over one hundred film credits since debuting as an extra in Madonna\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>\u201cBorderline\u201d video<\/span><\/a>, and Barbie Ferreira<\/a>, a model and influencer who starred in the first two seasons of HBO\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Euphoria.<\/span><\/i>\u00a0As evidenced by the emotional acuity she shows in her first starring role, Ferreira has a long, Leguizamo-like career trajectory in front of her.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Be prepared for an old school, two-hanky weeper\u2014yes, for much of the audience, but more pointedly for Ferreira.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As Lily, Ferreira kicks off and concludes the film with scenes of full-on ugly crying\u2014and there\u2019s a doozy in the middle that takes place at a dog shelter. These set-ups border on manipulative (expect to spend the early part of the film wishing this young woman demonstrated some agency), but Ferreira\u2019s emotional fireworks are deeply grounded, and keep the film on track even when it loses momentum as her character makes increasingly more questionable decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rachel Bay Jones in Bob Trevino Likes It<\/em> Courtesy of Roadside Attractions<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Leguizamo plays the title character, a construction manager from Southern Indiana to whom Lily sends a Facebook friend request because he shares a name with her father, a narcissist skinflint who periodically locks his daughter out of his orbit when she dampens his dating life. (\u201cBad\u201d Bob Trevino is imbued with such virulent self-obsession by sitcom actor French Stewart<\/a> <\/span>that you\u2019ll feel the need to check in with friends with similarly toxic dads as soon as you leave the theater.)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s remarkable to witness Leguizamo\u2019s legendary motormouth locked in neutral as he listens to, observes and empathizes with someone who has never experienced that level of compassion. (Ferreira is the resident speed talker in this two-hander.) Leguizamo\u2019s quietude and stillness is every bit as mesmerizing to watch as his loquacious dynamism was when he set the New York theater world on its ear three decades ago, and when he does offer Lily occasional words of encouragement, it\u2019s in a vowel perfect Hoosier twang.<\/span><\/p>\n