Answers to Nothing

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  • Opened December 2, 2011 
  • 2 hr 4 min
  • R | Some strong sexual content, nudity, violence and language
  • Dane Cook leads a stellar cast, including Elizabeth Mitchell (“Lost”), Julie Benz (“Dexter”), Zach Gilford (“Friday Night Lights”), and Barbara Hershey (Black Swan), as a man struggling with his own infidelity in Answers to Nothing. Set against the backdrop of a missing girl case, the film tells interweaving stories of several Los Angelenos trying to do the right thing. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Dane Cook, Elizabeth Mitchell, Julie Benz, Barbara Hershey, Zach Gilford
  • Director: Matthew Leutwyler
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign

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Entertaining Drama

by movie_lavender

An interesting character study set in Los Angeles. Its hard to get past the idea of Dane Cook as a psychoanalyst/psychologist and leading man. However, props to him for going outside of his comfort...

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Chicago Sun-Times
| Roger Ebert

The interlocking stories are theoretically about people whose lives are associated; that worked in "Crash." Here the connections seem less immediate and significant, and so the movie sometimes seems based on a group of separate short stories. Read full review

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The New York Times
| Neil Genzlinger

Some fine performances and an embrace of understatement make Matthew Leutwyler's oddly titled Answers to Nothing a respectable entry in the multiple-stories-that-interlock genre. Read full review

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"A Short Cuts" full of self-pitying sociopaths, Answers to Nothing follows its characters toward a succession of increasingly queasy conclusions it tries to pass off as heartfelt and human. Read full review

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New York Daily News
| Joe Neumaier

Apparently, it takes a village - or the collection of villages known as Los Angeles - to go nowhere slowly. Read full review

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Dane Cook as Ryan in ``Answers to Nothing.''