In “Paint,” Owen Wilson plays Carl Nargle, the host of a painting show on Vermont public television, who despite his lack of artistic talent is something of a superstar.
Writer-director Brit McAdams’ new film is a comedy filled with funny performances by Michaela Watkins, Stephen Root and Wendi McLendon-Covey, but it also includes brushstrokes of melancholy.
That’s part of what Wilson says attracted him to a role, which is superficially based on the real-life painter and posthumous pop culture icon Bob Ross, both in the huge halo of hair and fondness for basic landscapes that you —.yes, you, TV viewer! — can replicate at home.
