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...Answer Man, which was called Arlen Faber when it showed at Sundance this year, has more going for it. Jeff Daniels plays the long-ago author of a spiritual best seller, Me and God, who's since become a recluse in the most photogenic part of Philadelphia. He crawls out of his shell to meet a single-mom chiropractor (Lauren Graham), befriend a recovering alcoholic (Lou Taylor Pucci) and make a public display of vulnerability - all staples of the genre, as is the plangent piano score that indie films employ to tell viewers what to feel. (Sometimes watching a sweet...
...facial muscles. With Daniels (The Squid and the Whale) and Pucci (Thumbsucker) joined by Kat Dennings (Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist) and Olivia Thirlby (Snow Angels), the movie is like a convention of appealing indie stars. Writer-director John Hindman mostly gives them room to breathe, and The Answer Man is likable because it doesn't try too hard to be. (See pictures of LIFE's best celebrity covers...
...your favor. All that labor could pay off: the film earned a bundle in its first week of limited release and will soon broaden its charm offensive, or assault, at a theater near you. The script, by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, imagines that the perfect young man, Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Tom, falls in love with the perfect young woman, Zooey Deschanel's Summer. But she's reluctant to commit; she refuses to think of them as a couple, even after they've become best friends and sex partners. (Read TIME's review of (500) Days of Summer...
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...Man punches pregnant woman at Macau customs. Chaos ensues...