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Title: Humor Me (2017)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jemaine Clement | ... | Nate Kroll | |
| Elliott Gould | ... | Bob Kroll | |
| Ingrid Michaelson | ... | Allison | |
| Maria Dizzia | ... | Nirit Gerb-Kroll | |
| Priscilla Lopez | ... | Connie Andrews | |
| Joey Slotnick | ... | Zimmerman | |
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Willie C. Carpenter | ... | Ellis |
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Le Clanché du Rand | ... | Helen |
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Rosemary Prinz | ... | Gert |
| Annie Potts | ... | Dee | |
| Erich Bergen | ... | Randy Kroll | |
| Bebe Neuwirth | ... | C.C. Rudin | |
| Cade Lappin | ... | Gabe Kroll | |
| Ray Iannicelli | ... | Marv | |
| Mike Hodge | ... | Alan | |
A once-acclaimed New York playwright, NATE (Jemaine Clement), is struggling to finish his new play when his wife (Maria Dizzia) leaves him, taking their son. Desolate, broke and unable to pay the rent, Nate begrudgingly moves in with his widowed father, BOB (Elliott Gould), in his New Jersey retirement golf community. Bob, always quick with a joke, uses humor to deal with all of life's challenges, even the death of his beloved wife. It drives Nate crazy. Thinking his son could benefit from some discipline, Bob sends Nate to work for ELLIS (Willie Carpenter) an older ex-Marine who runs operations at the community. While at work, Nate stumbles on a senior citizen theater troupe staging a musical. Nate agrees to help but quickly realizes it won't be easy to get these quirky women to cooperate. And one of them, DEE (Annie Potts) even invites him to dinner to not-so-subtly set him up with her daughter, ALLISON (Ingrid Michaelson). Things reach a breaking point when a video of Nate's ... Written by Spitting Cobra Films
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The first thing I would say about this film is .. that I liked it!..which is quite a rare thing these days. It is a slow burner that turns into a little gem. It is actually laugh out loud funny at times which is very rare for a modern comedy film ranging from gentle humour to fairly blunt and direct stand up Jewish jokes.There are some intelligent and caring points made about generational differences, family, success and failure and life in general ... nothing completely new and which has not been covered in other films but put together in a very original and charming way by the very talented writer/ director Sam Hoffman. Jermaine Clement excels as the very dry down at heel playwright and is ably supported by a great supporting cast including veterans Gould and Neuwirth. Recommended.