Where’d you Go, Bernadette?

I never read the novel that this movie is based on, and after seeing the movie, I really don’t want to.  “Where’d You Go Bernadette” is billed as a comedy/mystery/drama; but it really wasn’t funny, the drama was more like drama queen and the mystery wasn’t really a mystery.  It was all quite contrived, and I actually found it quite boring.   Bernadette is an architect who at first was considered a wunderkind, but who hasn’t worked in twenty years – mainly because  she had a failure and she can’t get over it.  Through a series of events (I think these were supposed to be funny), Bernadette is seen to be mentaly unstable and her husband considers having her committed.  There is a ridiculous FBI agent and investigation that really don’t add a thing to the story. When she learns of all this, through a psychologist/FBI ‘intervention,’ Bernadette disappears.  However, the audience, and even her family, knows where she is.  So there is no mystery there.  Despite this, Cate Blanchett gives it as good a try as she can as Bernadette, but the character is kind of annoying and really not very believable. Even more annoying is Kristen Wiig’s turn as the most obnoxious social climbing, controlling, PC, helicopter mom and neighbor as you’d ever hate to know. I can’t recommend this, and I am sure you can find better things to watch.