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ELIZABETH BANKS DISCUSSES 'PEOPLE LIKE US'

By Rebecca Murray, About.com Guide

June 24, 2012 - If I had to vote now for Best Actress of 2012, Elizabeth Banks would be one of my top three choices. Banks' performance as a single mom struggling to make ends meet on a bartender's salary in People Like Us is one of her best of her career, and one of the best overall of 2012.

Screenwriter Alex Kurtzman, best known for big-budget action movies like Star Trek, Cowboys and Aliens, and Transformers, makes his feature film directorial debut with this comedy / drama inspired by true events. People Like Us stars Chris Pine, Captain Kirk in the rebooted Star Trek franchise, as a son who learns his estranged father has just died and left him with $150,000 to deliver to a sister (played by Banks) he didn't even know existed. He plots to meet his sister without letting her know they're related and without disclosing the fact she has inherited money, with Kurtzman (who co-wrote the script) having to create a relationship between the two siblings that never turned the film into a twisted romantic comedy.

At the LA press day for the DreamWorks Pictures release, Banks talked about maintaining the right tone, why she was attracted to this character, and why she wanted to be an actress in the first place.