New York magazine, riffing on Drew Barrymore‘s starring role in the film adaptation of He’s Just Not That Into You, suggests 10 other self-help books that should be Barrymore vehicles, including Freakonomics:
Drew Barrymore stars as a free-spirited Northwestern economics grad student who ventures into the Cabrini Green projects on the south side of Chicago to research the lives of drug dealers. Along the way, she finds herself drawn to a dashing young man (Tristan Wilds, The Wire) who yearns to escape the lifestyle and move with her to the suburbs of Evanston. The two quickly begin falling for each other, but one thing stands in the way of their blossoming romance: the fact that he still lives with his hilariously outspoken mother (Martin Lawrence).
Not bad, but why Northwestern? Is the University of Chicago just too eggheady? Anyway, we bet you could think of a few other storylines from the book that Barrymore might fit. For instance:
Drew Barrymore as the girlfriend of the last honest sumo wrestler (Masi Oka, Heroes), who puts it all on the line when he’s asked to rig a match to help his sumo-wrestling best friend (John Cho, Harold & Kumar)?
Drew Barrymore stars as a girl named Loser, whose romantically frustrated sister and Realtor, Winner (Katherine Marie Heigl, Gray’s Anatomy), becomes jealous when Loser finds the man of her dreams (Matthew McConaughey)?
BTW: If Freakonomics is a “self-help” book, then the Bible is a how-to.
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I suppose “Drew Barrymore gets an abortion” wasn’t really a viable plot line…..
As her criminal son is led into the gas chamber, Drew Barrymoore (‘s character) is given the chance to see what the world would be like if she had gotten an abortion to prevent being a single mother on welfare many years ago.
Drew Barrymore stars as the sister of a young boy who befriends an extraterrestrial with a peace offering of Reese’s Pieces…
What do you mean it’s been done?
Nerdy economist Steve (Micheal Cera) meets recently bereaved lifeguard Stephanie (Drew Barrymore) while conducting survey on child death rates in swimming pools.
An instructive romance develops, where Steve learns that you can’t measure happiness any more than grief.
Hmmm. Not amusing.
We could mix it with The Butterfly Effect (pretty sure that movie name is a misnomer though) and Freakonomics. Drew Barrymore goes back in time as a “prolifer” and stops Roe v. Wade, comes back to 1996 and America is an anarchist theocracy because of all the crime and evangelicalism.
Because everybody knows that while Northwestern girls can grow up to be pretty actresses (e.g. Julia Louis-Dreyfus), UChicago girls are fugz 4 lyfe.
@Brian R Murphy. Your point #3 is genius. Thanks…
Drew Barrymoore runs an honesty-pay bagel delivery service and falls in love with a handsome businessman on her route. But when she learns he and other top-floor executives are stealing her bagels, the relationship might develop holes…