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Genres:
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Comedy /
Romance
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Release:
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Director:
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John Hindman
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Actors:
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Olivia Thirlby,
Annie Corley,
Thomas Roy,
Max Antisell,
Jeff Daniels,
Lauren Graham,
Lou Taylor Pucci,
Kat Dennings,
Nora Dunn,
Tony Hale
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Duration:
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95 min.
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Rating:
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(6.7/10)121.5
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Plot Summary:
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Everyone wants to gather Arlen Faber, the have celebrated author of the defeat-selling sacred book "Me and God", but crotchety, disgruntled Arlen really wants to be left alone - and so far he's been successful in keeping his identity a secret. But all that changes when troubled bookstore P Kris Lucas discovers his home address and barters books inasmuch as Arlen's words of perspicacity, and a back mistreatment leads the anchoritic essayist to found dating chiropractor and overprotective separate mama Elizabeth. As Arlen's relationships with his newfound friends begin to ripen, he have to come ... to terms with his existence and the realization that he doesn't clutch all the answers.
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The Answer Man
When material's as meaty as this, no embellishment is necessary. It's a shame then that Maringouin and co-director Molly Lynch can't leave well alone. Jazzy visuals, clearly staged scenes, a score that dominates rather than compliments - none of this stuff cripples the picture but it does prevent it attaining true greatness. It's also a pity that, while in, say, Herzog's Grizzly Man, we were only invited to laugh at Timothy Treadwell when viewing footage he'd shot of himself, here, especially in the early stages, Strel Sr seems more like a stooge in a series of sketches rather than a - highly unusual - modern-day hero.
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