One day during her class' show and tell, a student brings in a burly, tattooed biker, Virgil (Virgil Mignanelli), who encourages individualism and causes problems for Sara. She confronts Virgil at his tattoo shop but as her circle of friends and family pressure her to conform, we see a latent desire to break out of her vanilla mold. When her boyfriend suggests separation due to her continuing pressure, Sara follows Virgil and sees he is a old fashioned romantic.
They strike up a friendship as they get to know each other, and Sara finds Virgil has more artistic talent than he let's on, while Virgil encourages her to be more daring. Virgil, though, thinks it is turning into a romantic relationship but Sara cannot get past her vanilla past to truly admit Virgil can be a romantic interest.
Although I liked the casting of someone who physically doesn't get leading romantic man offers, I found the story pretty conventional for a romantic comedy. The two main female characters, Sara and her sister, were portrayed as quite controlling (even if Sara did relent), whereas their two men wanted in their own ways to escape their women's grasps. Sara's sister was especially over the top in the way she was portrayed, a real shrew. While I can see things that Sara sees in Virgil, I don't see the opposite view other than that a pretty girl is interested in him. What does Virgil see in Sara that attracts him, that is individual to her?
Interspersed throughout are mockumentary interviews of people talking about how or why they got a tattoo; they seemed very stagey and I was thinking that it would have been more effective to have real people talk about their real experiences.
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