Synopsis
Divorced and demoralised, Amy Minsky’s prospects look bleak when she is condemned to move back in with her parents at the age of 35. Everyone wants to help but, as her patience level with advice is plummeting, a bold teenage boy enters her life, igniting her last bit of self-esteem.
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Cast
- Melanie LynskeyAmy
- Blythe DannerRuth
- John RubinsteinStan
- Sara ChaseMissy
- Daniel Eric GoldNoah
- Tori FeinsteinCaley
- Dave T. KoenigGary
- Greta LeeGap Girl
- Meera SimhanKaren
- Julie WhiteGwen
Recommendations
- 83
The Playlist
Warm and funny, real and raw, Hello I Must Be Going deserves a hearty welcome from moviegoers looking for an honest and frank comedy that never forgets to help us care about its characters. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
Working from a script by his wife, Sarah Koskoff, "High Fidelity" actor-turned-director Todd Louiso shapes the movie to Lynskey's rhythms. - 75
Slant Magazine
Thanks to Melanie Lynskey's performance, the movie feels like a believably worked-out, sympathetically presented study in thirtysomething uncertainty. - 70
Salon
If it's too subtle (and too similar to several other low-key indie romcoms) to make a big splash, it's got lovely performances and really builds strength as it goes along. - 67
The A.V. Club
The film plays like a strenuous tug of war between the inhuman machinery of a wildly misguided plot and the low-key humanism of Melanie Lynskey's warm yet unsentimental performance. - 60
Village Voice
With a digital sheen exacerbating the aura of slightness, Hello vamps along in its low indie-rom-com key toward a climactic mother-daughter moment not nearly as harrowing as the one in Lynskey's 1994 debut, but moving nonetheless. - 60
The New York Times
This is ultimately a tale of affirmation, self-acceptance and second chances, and its lessons, while not unwelcome, are a bit too forced and neatly packaged to make it fully satisfying. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
A credibly drawn central character is trapped inside a half-cooked dramatic stew in Hello I Must Be Going.
