Crashing on Claire’s couch, Michelle gets the idea to market and sell Claire's tasty brownies with the help of Rachel’s Girl Scout group, which Michelle molds into a small army. When she's sent to prison for insider trading she emerges penniless and in need of help from former put-upon assistant Claire (Bell), a single mum to tween Rachel (Ella Anderson). Melissa McCarthy is Michelle Darnell, the 47th wealthiest woman in America.

But oddly the screenplay (co-written by McCarthy), almost a comic version of Blue Jasmine/Streetcar, then goes and robs her of that. If ever there was a vehicle made for Melissa McCarthy's brand of loudmouth abrasive humour The Boss, a character she created over ten years ago, is it.įinally an actual reason for characters to stand around and wait until she's finished insulting them with withering one-liners, like they do in The Heat, Spy, Identity Thief et al, here the characters/verbal abuse fodder have no choice but to take it because, well, she’s the boss.

She the boss movie