Starring: Ben Stiller, Rhys Ifans Director: Noah Baumbach Format: DVD
160% Sales Rank in Movies & TV: 229 (was 596 yesterday) 
(10)Release Date: July 13, 2010
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Review & Description
Roger Greenberg (Stiller) is single fortyish and deliberately doing nothing. In search of a place to restart his life he agrees to housesit for his brother in LA and tries to reconnect with his former bandmate (Rhys Ifans) and successful ex-girlfriend (Jennifer Jason Leigh). But old friends aren't necessarily still best friends and Greenberg soon finds himself forging a connection with his brother's personal assistant Florence (Greta Gerwig). Despite his best attempts not to be drawn in Greenberg comes to realize that he may at last have found a reason to be happy. Critics rave ?Greenberg has a soul a heart and a sense of humor.? (Stephanie Zacharek Salon.com)Starring: Ben Stiller Greta Gerwig Rhys Ifans Jennifer Jason Leigh Brie Larson Juno Temple Chris MessinaDirected by: Noah BaumbachGreenberg aims to recapture the raw flavor and psychological acuity of 1970s character portraits like Five Easy Pieces--but the character in question is completely of the moment. Neurotic and anxious Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) comes to L.A. to stay in his brother's house, where he reconnects with old bandmates and falls, with painful awkwardness, into a relationship with his brother's personal assistant, Florence Marr (Greta Gerwig, sweetheart of the "mumblecore" movement). But this movie is not about plot--it's about human frailty and finding a moral or spiritual significance in caring for a dog or driving someone on an errand. Stiller sheds his usual bag of twitchy tricks and conveys the brittle spirit of a man defeated by his own intelligence. Gerwig has an odd, hapless charm; she makes aimlessness appealing. As a romance, the movie falters--while it's obvious why Roger would be attracted to Florence's youth and vulnerability, it's less clear why Florence wouldn't be repelled by Roger's sometimes-cruel instability. But writer-director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) has gotten even better at capturing the history of two people with brief, incisive strokes; Roger's prickly history with his friends becomes vividly clear in a few conversations. As a core sampling of the contemporary psyche, Greenberg is rewarding. Also featuring excellent performances by Jennifer Jason Leigh (eXistenZ) and Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill). --Bret Fetzer Read more
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