Synopsis
With an interminable case of writer's block and a personal family crisis, playwright Nate is forced to move into his father's retirement community.
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Cast
- Jemaine ClementNate Kroll
- Elliott GouldBob Kroll
- Ingrid MichaelsonAllison
- Annie PottsDee
- Bebe NeuwirthC.C. Rudin
- Erich BergenRandy Kroll
- Priscilla LopezConnie Andrews
- Maria DizziaNirit Gerb-Kroll
- Joey SlotnickZimmerman
- Willie C. CarpenterEllis
Recommendations
- 80
Los Angeles Times
If writer-director Sam Hoffman’s charming, well-performed tale feels at all familiar, it’s territory worth revisiting. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
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. - 63
Movie Nation
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. - 60
The New York Times
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. - 60
Variety
Humor Me manages to earn its audience’s indulgence, if never its full affection. - 50
Slant Magazine
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. - 40
Village Voice
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. - 38
RogerEbert.com
Writer/director Sam Hoffman's trite dramedy about personal redemption delivers mediocre performances.
