Synopsis
A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means.
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Cast
- Jason SchwartzmanAlbert Markovski
- Isabelle HuppertCaterine Vauban
- Dustin HoffmanBernard Jaffe
- Lily TomlinVivian Jaffe
- Jude LawBrad Stand
- Mark WahlbergTommy Corn
- Naomi WattsDawn Campbell
- Isla FisherHeather
- Sydney ZarpCricket Hooten
- Jonah HillBret Hooten
Recommendations
- 80
L.A. Weekly
A fresh, buoyant, mischievous and rather jolly meditation - if that's the word for a movie as divinely nuts as this one is - on the meaning of life in an unhappy world. - 75
ReelViews
A lot of people are going to describe it as a waste of time, yet there's a likeability to the quirky characters that held my interest while tickling my funny bone. - 70
Variety
Clever but distancing, this existential comedy bounces along on the backs of its tasty cast, witty writing and stylistic verve. - 70
Village Voice
There's more than a bit of Charlie Kaufman to the heady premise, although the scenario doesn't double back on itself--except perhaps in the joke of having Schwartzman's actual mother, Talia Shire, play his mother on-screen. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Despite the unique premise and some truly inspired casting, the picture remains stuck in an existential rut of its own. - 50
Newsweek
Ultimately, Huckabees doesn't work. But it sure does stimulate. This is just the kind of "failure" we could use plenty more of. - 50
The New Yorker
Huckabees is the real thing--an authentic disaster--but the picture is so odd that it should inspire, in at least a part of the audience, feelings of fervent loyalty. - 50
New York Magazine (Vulture)
The philosophic notions in I Love Huckabees are ultimately not much more than window dressing for some fancy slapstick.
