There is a genre of film - this one and Switch come to mind - that depict the denizens of New York City as absurdly neurotic fast-talkers who can't seem to find happiness but who, you realize as the movie hits the 5-minute mark, are all secretly pleased about their excruciating personalities and their irrelevant lives. Pleased. Pleased, when they should be looking in the mirror and telling themselves to snap out of it and get over themselves. I am here to tell you that these movie characters are all figments of some writer's lazy imagination. Do not be afraid to move to New York, it's a lovely place with all kinds of nice people. If you move there - specifically, to the island of Manhattan, either east of west of Central Park or points south - you will find that if you love the city, it will love you back. It's as simple as that. And I promise you will never meet idiots like the preposterous fictions in these movies.

I just saw this on FX tonight and was surprised at how good this film is. I think there is a lot more to the film than the other reviews suggest. It is a quirky little film with a great cast and a wonderful script.Without wanting to give too much away, the entire film is an interesting take on the wizard of oz. The performances were brilliant all round, including the really small bit parts. Matt Dillon and Annette Benning steal the show at times but Kristen Wiig gives a really credible performance as Imogene. The direction is great, editing seamless. There are a few predictable moments in the film but overall it is still a good watch. It really is a good film for a Friday or Saturday night in.

How is this movie getting good user reviews? It's terrible. It starts out okay and you think that you might be in for a surprise but then it just turns into every cliché available! Bad, bad, bad ending. The characters are walking stereotypes, no originality, and Imogene is super unlikeable! Just one example is her outrage at her mother renting out her room although she has never been home since she left high school many years earlier. She is utterly self absorbed and judgmental. Another thing I strongly dislike is a fat shaming incident near the end where to get back at someone who was unkind to Imogene she is told her butt looks huge in her dress and we're supposed to think this puts her in her place. This script was written by a woman! Come on woman, break out of that crap! It had potential but did not fulfill it at all.

Perhaps because my father was an arsehole too, or my mother a surface whore, and my brother a retard, and I was delusional about my talents, by this movie touched a fiber during the visit to the father. After decades of being "dead", after being the center of the lives of these two adults what haven't graduated from emotional kindergarden, they find the filthy rich father to whom they have attached "happiness." The only thing he can offer, however, is money, a lot of money. Omogene has to get up to vomit at his suggestion, leaving the residence with her inventor brother without further explanation. These people are poor, the kids, mother, etc. Extremeley poor. Yet the notion, well, just go see it. This is a good movie in the serious way, and a funny one too. I am so glad I saw it.