However deep the divide currently separating the Middle East from the West appears to be, there's at least one thing we can all agree on: Albert Brooks isn't all that funny anymore. Poignantly, no one seems to know this better than Brooks himself, who follows up THE MUSE — in which he played a once-popular screenwriter so desperate for inspiration he starts taking career advice from Sharon Stone — with this lame topical comedy. Brooks again plays a version of himself, a once-popular comic-turned-filmmaker who's finding it hard to land that one great part his career so desperately needs. Penny Marshall, looking for someone to star in her remake of HARVEY, can hardly b...
Released:
2006
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
98 mins