Movie Review - 'The Trouble With Bliss' : NPR

By A Mystery Man Writer

A hapless, unemployed 35-year-old (Michael C. Hall) still living with his father is the focus of a quirk-ridden finally-coming-of-age film. Critic Ian Buckwalter says the self-consciously literary movie, based on a novel by Douglas Light, attempts a clumsy cleverness that can't rise above caricature.
A hapless, unemployed 35-year-old (Michael C. Hall) still living with his father is the focus of a quirk-ridden finally-coming-of-age film. Critic Ian Buckwalter says the self-consciously literary movie, based on a novel by Douglas Light, attempts a clumsy cleverness that can't rise above caricature.