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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...technology-based childhood. Much of the film is devoted to Harris’ upbringing and his relationship with his mother, whom he refused to see even on her deathbed. Interviews with Harris’ brother, in particular, reveal how he went from television addict to internet geek to friendless, heartless mad scientist. Though Timoner refers to herself as a “freak magnet,” the film has a surprisingly sympathetic gaze, making it much more than a voyeuristic expose of a socially-stunted creep...

Author: By Mia P. Walker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Public’ Exposure at Brattle Theatre | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...long-ago roommate Adam Sandler as George Simmons, a star of movie comedies who has been diagnosed with a terminal disease, and who hires Ira Wright (Seth Rogen), a struggling young comedian, as his assistant. In what he presumes to be his last days, George realizes he's essentially friendless and loveless, and tries to rekindle the old affair with Laura (Leslie Mann), then a young actress, now a wife and mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funny People: Uneasy Mix of Humor and Heart | 7/31/2009 | See Source »

...surreal exposition of the play is the same as that of the film: One night in 1988, a friendless high school student named Donnie (Dan McCabe) sees a man-sized rabbit with a horrifying mask, calling himself Frank. Frank (Perry Jackson) tells him in a terrifyingly distorted voice that “the world will end” in 28 days, and saves Donnie from a freak accident. For the next month, Donnie does whatever Frank tells him, upsetting the delicate social balance of his emotionally repressed suburb in the process...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Debut of ‘Darko’ Disappoints at ART | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

...snort at the fate of a very rich man being handed a $161.5million parting gift, or to find satisfaction in his dramatic comeuppance. O'Neal's tendency to play golf by himself has been held up time and again as a sign of a disconnected and friendless manager who would eventually have been undone anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Market Casualties | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...Wrath”-like epic in which the smartass owners of a family business come to grips with a new Wal-Mart in town.) As we learn the details of Roger’s pathetic downfall from “OK Dad” to “friendless alcoholic divorcee,” we also meet Bethany, a fellow employee whose obsession with death has expressed itself in her Dracula-esque clothing and makeup choices.Bethany and Roger’s mutual misery condenses into a super-tornado of woe when the former begins writing messages in the latter?...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sorrows of the Young and Worthless | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

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