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      A Little Help

      R Released Jul 22, 2011 1 hr. 49 min. Comedy Drama List
      42% 43 Reviews Tomatometer 30% 2,500+ Ratings Audience Score Feeling her life spinning out of control, a widow (Jenna Fischer) drinks too much and goes along with her son's outrageous lie about how his father really died. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Mar 22 Buy Now

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      Audience Member A comedy? Don't think so. Well done, acted. SPOILER ALERT kept waiting for the lead character to grow a spine, do what's best for her son, take the settlement to start over. They mildly allude to it. Let down. Very tired of movies that just end, leaving you to guess what you want. Ugggggg! Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Garbage watch, not watching again, and can't recommend. That said, there is an audience for this, and a lesson buried in the ending, but it honestly just feels like it's not finished. I generally like Jenna Fischer, I generally like it when a story plays with traditional story arcs, but this isn't a full story: it's just a sequence of events that happened in a character's life. That may sound similar to a plot, but there is a key difference that stories have a structure and value to it. I'm glad someone got to make this, it was probably helpful, and I'm sure it helped someone else to see the chaos of their life represented on screen. But most people should just skip this. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Hollywood sees kids as obstacles to happiness, adults as grown children, and relationships as pointless. Seems like every movie portrays kids as disrespectful and adults caught in perpetual adolescence. And why are 80% of movies made by alleged experts so bad? Maybe every 100 movies I find one that is top notch Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review ron t Another movie that has a good cast, a good premise, interesting character development and sets ups a complicated problem that you eagerly anticipate seeing the solution to, and then it just ends with no resolution. Making watching the whole movie a waste of time. And the people are sleazy in most of these movies. I'm glad I grew up when they knew how to write an ending, and they were usually inspirational, not majorly depressing. So that's the two cents of an old man. Which I learned in Amazon's "Catastrophe" is everyone's least favorite demographic, which explains a lot. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member A brilliant and bold film. Shows the unique relationship between a mother and her son that makes the average viewer question their own such love. An anachronism for the ages. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Liked the movie. Loved the cast. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      John DeFore Washington Post 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. Rated: 1.5/4 Aug 5, 2011 Full Review Sam Adams Philadelphia City Paper For a movie without much on its mind, A Little Help is impressively determined in its downward spiral, with only the minimum uplift to prevent audiences from walking straight out of the theater and into oncoming traffic. Rated: B- Aug 4, 2011 Full Review Brian Tallerico HollywoodChicago.com Despite the best efforts by Jenna Fischer playing against type as a smoking, drinking newly-single mother, A Little Help is a mess. Rated: 2.0/5.0 Jul 29, 2011 Full Review Will Leitch Deadspin A misguided dopey little vanity project that's harmless, but inert. Rated: C- Jun 22, 2013 Full Review Roger Moore Tribune News Service An odd duck of a period piece dramedy, a wonderfully detailed character-study set on Long Island a year after the 9/11 attacks." Rated: 3/4 Jan 14, 2013 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews ...a well-intentioned yet misguided piece of work. Rated: 2/4 Nov 1, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Feeling her life spinning out of control, a widow (Jenna Fischer) drinks too much and goes along with her son's outrageous lie about how his father really died.
      Director
      Michael J. Weithorn
      Distributor
      Freestyle Releasing
      Production Co
      Secret Handshake Entertainment
      Rating
      R (Drug Use|Some Sexual Content|Language)
      Genre
      Comedy, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jul 22, 2011, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Apr 23, 2012
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $85.8K
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