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...mall office comes with extras: the clientele of the previous tenant, a private dick. He takes on a case, awakening a stirring in his cream-filled soul, and opens a sideline as a sleuth. Richter (reteaming with Conan O'Brien, the show's co-creator) is charming as an Everyman dipping his toe into adventure, uttering G-rated curses ("Oh, Mother Hubbard!") and signaling his lane changes during 45-m.p.h. freeway chases. Fasten your seat belts; it's going to be a funny ride...
...said he respected the film for going beyond the individual harm that substance abusers bring upon themselves and covering community issues, such as the relationship between substance abusers and “violence, infection and disease, and automobile accidents.” HITTING HOME As the diverse and respectable Everyman (and Everywoman) in glasses, sweaters, and red power-ties on the “Addiction” poster imply, the film series focuses on members of a typical American community, not third-time prison offenders on the fringe. Furthermore, it covers issues beyond periods of addiction, such as new drug...
...Mouse Memorabilia: The Vintage Years 1928-1938 (Abrams; 180 pages; $27.50). Whether happily dozing in an armchair that is the base of a lamp or merrily dancing with his Minnie atop a toy piano, Mickey is the sturdy little guy we recognize in all of us: the mouse as Everyman...
...exhibiting his trademark belligerence. Ferrell is essentially expected to play a comedic straight man; most of the film’s humor derives from his mediocrity in the face of persistent absurdity. It’s a casting disaster: since when was Will Ferrell the everyman?Dustin Hoffman recycles his character from “I Heart Huckabees,” which may or may not be a bad thing depending on how you feel about his recent tendency to ignore his natural talent.Emma Thompson, however, completely saves the film at some of its worst moments. She throws herself into...
...angry with the machinations of corporate America, to suspect that it will stop at nothing to protect its interests. But there is something routine about his paranoia here, something that belongs in a different film. He has a great topic in Man of the Year - a smart and unlikely Everyman , an outsider used to speaking truth to power, who now has power to speak populist truth (and disgust) to the powerless, focusing their inchoate needs and longings from the bully presidential pulpit. Instead, he?s given us an awkward mix of standard genres that doesn?t give us what...