Indie-ish rom-com The Answer Man stars the excellent Jeff Daniels as the curmudgeonly author of Me and God—a book "that has redefined spirituality for an entire generation and has been translated into over 100 languages"—and Lauren Graham as the single mom who melts his heart or something. Nathin Rabin at the Onion questions its merits: "At The Answer Man’s hollow core lies a groaning irony: Daniels is an answer man without any answers. If anything, he’s even more lost than the spiritual seekers looking to him for guidance and wisdom... The film’s resemblance to The Squid And The Whale does it no favors; where that film felt ripped from the ugliest, most painful recesses of real life, The Answer Man feels like a second-hand pastiche of dozens of superior films and a battery of screenwriting manuals."
Click on the film stills above for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Shrink, The Answer Man, G-Force, Orphan, The Ugly Truth, California Company Town, The English Surgeon, Paraiso Travel, Loren Cass, Import/Export, Blood Simple, Deadgirl, and, starting Wednesday, Rediscovering John Cazale.






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