Texas is a big place that can feel so small sometimes. Just ask comedian Iliza Shlesinger, who clearly gets it. Born in New York, but raised in the suburbs of Dallas Fort Worth, she made her break from the Lone Star State right after high school and never looked back. Well, that part’s not quite true. Her hilarious, perceptive and deeply relatable indie comedy “Chasing Summer” (directed by Josephine Decker) is all about looking back, as her overachieving character Jaime returns “home” after nearly 20 years away to make peace with her past.
No one questions when men do what Jaime did, ditching their families to go off and make a career for themselves. As the film opens, Jaime is out saving the world — that’s literally her job, as a disaster relief worker — cleaning up after a tornado in neighboring Mississippi. Without calling attention to it, Decker shoots the…
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