A Little Help (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: October 25, 2011
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Image Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Daniel Yelsky, Chris O'Donnell, Aida Turturro, Lesley Ann Warren, Sam McMurray, Jenna Fischer, Rob Benedict, Nadia Dajani, Kim Coates & Brooke Smith | |
Directed by | Michael J. Weithorn | |
Screenwriting by | Michael J. Weithorn | |
Composition by | Austin Wintory | |
Cameo: | Dion DiMucci | |
Director of Photography: | Tom Harting |
Entertainment Reviews:
[A] gently absurdist drama of a thirtysomething woman's coming of age....[Fischer] is sympathetic without asking for sympathy in the lead role...
Los Angeles Times
[I]t does possess the appealing, low-key charm of its star, Jenna Fischer...
Hollywood Reporter
Rating: B- --
Jenna Fischer shows off her dramatic chops but her downer film is a bit aimless.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Rating: B --
A Little Help doesn't dazzle, and you can pick at its parts, but Fischer's performance gives the movie a sense of romantic weariness that lingers. Life is a series of disasters to be weathered, no matter how cute you are.
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Detroit News
3.5 stars out of 4 -- [Fischer] plays a woman who is smart, plucky, trying to do the right thing, and going through a period when every damn thing goes wrong....The movie succeeds...
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 2.5/4 --
"A Little Help" settles for familiar and modest payoffs. It's not much. Yet Fischer clearly relishes the chance to play someone who's a demurely reckless mess.
Chicago Tribune
Rating: 1.5/4 --
The next chapter in Laura's story might be something worth rooting for, but here's hoping she has a different writer penning her lines.
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Washington Post
Product Description:
A widowed dental hygienist gets caught up in a pair of elaborate lies while growing increasingly attracted to her smitten brother-in-law in this comedy drama from KING OF QUEENS executive producer Michael J. Weithorn. In the wake of 9/11, Laura Pehlke (Jenna Fischer) finds her life falling apart. Not only is her husband, Bob (Chris O'Donnell), having an affair, but lately their son, Dennis (Daniel Yelski), has begun displaying all the tell-tale signs of tween rage. Then, just when it seems like things around the Pehlke household couldn't get any more tense, Bob drops dead due to a heart condition that he intentionally kept secret for fear of divulging his extramarital fling. Suddenly, Laura's overbearing mother, Joan (Lesley Ann Warren), and pushy sister, Kathy (Brooke Smith), are insisting she ship Dennis off to private school and sue the hospital where Bob was "misdiagnosed." Meanwhile, after enrolling in a new school, insecure Dennis tells his classmates that his father was a NYC fireman who perished heroically while rescuing people from the Twin Towers. The two lies snowballing as her stress begins to peak, Laura finds that the only person who seems to sympathize with her plight is Kathy's husband, Paul (Rob Benedict), who harbored a major crush on her back in high school, yet barely registered on her radar. Two decades later, Laura finally notices him. Now the closer that Laura and Paul grow, the more apparent it becomes that they both desire more from their relationship than either of them are willing to admit.
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- Sales Rank: 107,373
- UPC: 014381747553
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