Results

Kat (Cobie Smulders) is a fitness-obsessed food log proponent and personal trainer at Power4Life, a gym—nay, a lifestyle—run by Trevor (Guy Pearce), a man who can only be described as “goal-oriented” personified. Kat is Power4Life’s most highly rated—and aggressive—trainer, and Trevor its visionary. He wants to expand his business, add a juice bar and a meditation space, and “actualize” P4L’s philosophy. Kat wants to work hard, get her clients in shape and get paid. The two used to be more than gym buddies, but that was presumably bad for business, so they’re now begrudging, but for the most part friendly, coworkers. Then Danny (Kevin Corrigan), a newly rich and recently divorced oaf, enters the picture and complicates their already dysfunctional relationship.
More out of boredom than out of any desire to better himself, Danny heads to P4L for something or someone to occupy his time. But when Kat is hired to be his trainer, he focuses more on her perfectly toned body than working out his own. Awkwardness ensues and soon Kat, Trevor and Danny find themselves tangled in an unusual partnership.
Results is a meandering, overly long film in which a lot of stuff happens, but none of it is all that interesting—much like daily life. Unlike films with more traditional narrative arcs, Results has no major catastrophe or inciting incident that kick-starts its action. In fact, there’s not much action to speak of, just the everyday events and small problems that consume the characters’ lives. Results, in this way, is very similar to Bujalski’s early works, which have been popularly lumped into the “mumblecore” movement: There’s the naturalistic dialogue, nontraditional plot structure, and true to form, his characters still have plenty of difficulty expressing themselves.