112 minute running time so 10 to 20 minutes too long … my buddy Dave recommended this one, telling me “you’ll hate it,” but I wouldn’t say I hated it, I just didn’t like it and wouldn’t recommend it. It’s too weird and too depressing and I didn’t get its deep message, assuming there was one … sad-sack Paul Giamatti, who specializes in playing losers, the bald, the glasses, the straggly beard … but he’s a good actor … the girl is Michelle Williams, whom I didn’t immediately recognize because she’s chubbier here, she’s talented too, I really liked her in Shame … but as I said, I didn’t really get it and don’t want even to think about it. As James Greenberg said, “Loaded with obtuse symbolism, the film is not only hard to understand, it isn't much fun trying to figure it out.”