Humor Me

Name: Humor Me
Genre: Comedy
Released: January 12, 2018
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 53
Cast: Annie Potts, Elliott Gould, Ingrid Michaelson, Jemaine Clement, Joey Slotnick

2018

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Shout! Factory | Release Date: January 12, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Annie Potts, Elliott Gould, Ingrid Michaelson, Jemaine Clement, Joey Slotnick, Le Clanché du Rand, Maria Dizzia, Priscilla López, Rosemary Prinz, Willie C. Carpenter

Summary: Humor Me is a heartfelt father-son light comedy about a struggling playwright (Jemaine Clement) who is forced to move in with his joke-telling dad (Elliot Gould) in a New Jersey retirement community and learns, as his father often says, "life's going to happen, whether you smile or not."

Director: Sam Hoffman

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 93 min

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Gary Goldstein

Jan 18, 2018

If writer-director Sam Hoffman’s charming, well-performed tale feels at all familiar, it’s territory worth revisiting. Read full review

Maureen Lee Lenker

Jan 10, 2018

Clement channels his wry hangdog humor into a slightly more grounded performance than he often gives. His charm and absurdist tendencies help elevate Nate from a potentially self-centered man-child to a lost soul who is genuinely compelling. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Dec 18, 2017

Humor Me is never much more than a comfort food comedy — funny people, given mildly funny situations and just enough funny things to say, find a few laughs and a lot of grins. Read full review

Jason Zinoman

Jan 11, 2018

The movie never gets too deep, which is half of its charm. The other half involves the low-key comic performances by a stellar cast including Annie Potts and Bebe Neuwirth. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Jan 8, 2018

Sam Hoffman respects his characters and evinces curiosity about their lives—and these qualities aren't to be taken for granted. But he isn't willing to disrupt his familiar and tightly structured plot. Read full review

April Wolfe

Jan 9, 2018

Hoffman’s feature debut is hampered by well-worn tropes the writer-director seems at first to be aware of — and playing with — before he leans so hard into them that whatever originality the film at first displayed crashes right into a well of rom-com cliché. Read full review

Danielle Solzman

Jan 12, 2018

Humor Me is essentially the feature film adaption of writer-director Sam Hoffman‘s web series Old Jews Telling Jokes, and much like ideas that are typically created for a web series, the execution of the material appears to be just a bit too lacking to serve the purpose of a full-length film. Read full review

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