QWERTY

This indie romance focuses on the relationship between two outsiders. An oddball guy Marty (Eric Hailey) working as a security guard at a mall loses it when he complains about a $50 pair of trendy underwear, thus losing his job. But a quirky customer Zoe (Dana Pupkin) defends him and they start a romance despite his apparent misanthropic personality.

Zoe works at the DMV sniffing out licentious license plate numbers/words to revoke, and gets Marty a new job at the complaint desk where his pessimistic character is fulfilled. She eventually reveals her love of the word game Scrabble despite being shy about joining a Scrabble club at a library. Each brings out the unfulfilled character of the other.

But as expected, there are obstacles.  Zoe brings Marty home to meet the family but it doesn't go well as even she doesn't get along with them. Marty begins to feel like an outsider again, although he encourages Zoe to indulge her love of Scrabble, enough so that she gets over her shyness and enters a Scrabble championship, where she goes up against the narcisstic defender of the title. Filmed in Chicago.

This was a pretty quirky and indie movie. There are some darker aspects of both characters that juxtaposed to the more broader comedy taking place at the Scrabble championship and a couple other overly comedic characters.  Marty and the new friends that Zoe makes at the Scrabble club become her new family as they encourage her at the amateur sport.