Taglines: Speak up and let your voice be heard.
Sam Soto is the king of voice-overs, he has published and autobiography and is about to receive a lifetime achievement award. His daughter, Carol Solomon, is a struggling vocal coach who has always been overshadowed by her father. Sam kicks Carol out of the house so that he can live with his 30-year-old girlfriend Jamie, and Carol goes to live with her sister Dani.
Upcoming film series The Amazon Games plans to bring back the famous line “In a world…” and the trailer voice-over is highly sought after. Sam bows out so that his friend and heir-apparent, Gustav Warner, can assume the role. Gustav fails to show due to laryngitis, and Louis asks Carol to provide a temp track, which gains the attention of the executive producer, who now wants Carol for the job. Carol also gains several lucrative jobs. Carol neglects to tell her self absorbed father about her new-found success. Gustav and Sam feel entitled and are dismissive of the unknown woman who “stole” the job from them.
Due to her intrusive habit of recording guests for her voice archive Carol is barred from the hotel where Dani works as concierge. Undeterred Carol asks Dani to interview and record, a guest at the hotel for her, a flirtatious Irishman.
Carol joins Sam and Jamie at a party thrown by Gustav in his mansion. Carol wanders around admiring the artwork, Gustav flirts with her and she ends up staying the night. Dani is working late again, although she is supposed to meet her husband Moe for dinner. While waiting around he listens to the intimate recording, where his wife pretends to be single and is shocked. When she arrives home, he is listening to the tape again and again, and quietly walks out.
Rumors spread quickly, about Carol and Gustav. Gustav boasts to Sam of his night with some party-crasher, and when he learns she is the woman in competition for the job, decides to keep pursuing her still not fully realizing who she is.
Sam and Jamie host a meal for his daughters, and it comes out that Carol is the mystery woman in the running for the coveted job. Sam is indignant, furious at Gustav, and dismissive of Carol, causing her to leave angry. Sam vows to compete for the job himself. Dani is distraught about her husband, and Carol secretly records her anguish, sending the message to her husband to help win him back.
Competition for the job heats up, all three must send recordings for the studio to decide. Carol is ready to drop out but Louis champions her cause, and tells her he likes her. Carol admits she likes him too and they work together to produce the audition recording, and party together afterwards, and at the end of the night Louis finally kisses her.
Though still angry at her father, Moe insists that Carol and Dani go the ceremony where he is due to receive his lifetime achievement award. As part of the ceremony the trailer for The Amazon Games is revealed, Carol got the job. Carol is elated, and Sam storms off. Jamie berates him and threatens to leave him if he does not grow up and show support for his daughters.
Sam achieves his award and is magnanimous in victory, dedicating the award to his daughters. While at the bathroom Carol encounters the executive producer, who bluntly tells her she was not the best person for the job, but was chosen for the greater meaning of having a woman in that role. Carol continues her work as a voice coach, helping women to speak less like a “sexy baby” and be taken more seriously.
In a World…
Directed by: Lake Bell
Starring: Lake Bell, Fred Melamed, Demetri Martin, Michaela Watkins, Ken Marino, Rob Corddry, Nick Offerman
Screenplay by: Lake Bell
Production Design by: Megan Fenton
Cinematography by: Seamus Tierney
Film Editing by: Tom McArdle
Costume Design by: Lindy McMichael
Set Decoration by: Elizabeth Garner
Music by: Ryan Miller
MPAA Rating: R for language including some sexual references.
Studio: Roadside Attractions
Release Date: August 9, 2013
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