We enjoyed this cringe-inducing story of a suburban man searching for meaning in life after having left his wife, son, and job. Ben Mendelsohn is very good in the troubled lead, with terrific supporting work by Edie Falco and Thomas Mann as the angry wife and troubled son, and Charlie Tahan as another troubled teen.
We're fans of the cringy work of director/writer Nicole Holofcener, who wrote the screenplay adaptation of Ted Thompson's 2014 book of the same name. This is her first feature with a man as protagonist, though the women have plenty to do.
We streamed this on Netflix on March 16, 2020, spurred by some website's recommending it in a list of comedies. It's good, but it's not a comedy.
I can't find any of the soundtrack by Marcelo Zarvos to stream.
Mendelsohn was last blogged for Darkest Hour, Falco for Landline, Mann for Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Holofcener for directing Enough Said after which she wrote Can You Ever Forgive Me?, and Zarvos for Fences. Tahan also played a troubled teen in the Netflix series Ozark.
Rotten Tomatoes' critics and audiences are widely split, averaging 85 and 47%, respectively. We're in the former camp, but then, we like the awkward cringing.
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