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A Marriage Struggles To The Beat Of 'Band Aid'

Zoe Lister-Jones and Adam Pally star in an ambling but insightful comedy about a couple that uses music to stop fighting.
Married couple Ben (Adam Pally, left) and Anna (Zoe-Lister Jones) form a band with their weird neighbor Dave (Fred Armisen) in <em>Band Aid</em>.

Anna (Zoe Lister-Jones) and Ben (Adam Pally) are fighting. The young Los Angeles couple bickers long and loud in unprintable expletives about dirty dishes, interfering mothers, his laziness, her incessant judgments and, of course, sex (not enough) in their shaky 10-year marriage. is a comedy, and though the jokes are out-there funny on and off (a toddler named Isis has a cameo), half an hour in you

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