Woman sues over 'Drive' movie trailer, Having won the best director award at the Cannes Film Festival, and holding a 93% fresh rating with Rotten Tomatoes, it turns out that there's a bit more going on in the film than just dumb driving sequences. And, for that reason, Sarah Deming of Oakland Michigan is suing. She claims that the trailer was misleading.


woman sues "Drive" trailer, There's two responses one should have to this. The first is the standard "You've got to by shitting me" response. Great, another frivolous law suit. Odds are you could have simply told the theater manager that you thought the trailer was misleading, it wasn't the movie you thought you were going to see, and if you conduct yourself in a reasonable manner, you'll either get a refund or a voucher to see something else. Sarah Deming lawsuit "drive" very little driving,

The second, more lawyerly reaction, is to say that maybe she has a point. A trailer is an advertisement, and if the product isn't as advertised, aren't you entitled to a refund?

Inglorious Basterds had very little of the comical Nazi killing featured in the trailer. The entire second half of Funny People was devoid of any sort of humor. The Phantom Menace falsely claimed to be a Star Wars film (it's just George's fan fiction).

Thankfully, there's the convenient little concept of puffery. ...Yeah, that probably applies. We all understand that movie trailers cherry pick scenes, and sometimes contain scenes that are ultimately cut from the final film. With a little luck, the case will be thrown out. Otherwise, we're possibly looking at nothing but trailers that spell out exactly what will happen in the movie, like with The Blind Side. Sarah Deming dehumanizing racism,

We're all better off sitting through an occasional movie that wasn't what you expected, than having ever movie trailer's MPAA message followed by "Spoiler Alert."