Fresh
You have to like James and his outlook on life. It may not be glamorous, but it's one that eventually allows James a higher lever of satisfaction.
Marta Barber, Miami Herald
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
Sometimes love is just a big bowl of wrong.
2006 · 1h 20m · TV-PG
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Jeff Garlin
Overview
Life has its downs for James, living with his mom in Chicago at 39, an aging performer at Second City, eating and weighing too much. A woman he's been dating drops him, as does his agent, her brother. James turns down roles in local TV, roles that make him sad. Someone's remaking his favorite movie, "Marty," a role he'd love, but he doesn't even get an audition.
Director and cast
- Jeff Garlin Director
- Jeff Garlin as James Aaron
- Sarah Silverman as Beth
- Bonnie Hunt as Stella Lewis
- Dan Castellaneta as Dick
- David Pasquesi as Luca Giancarlo
- Amy Sedaris as School Therapist - Ms. Clark
- Paul Mazursky as Charlie Perlman
- Richard Kind as Herb Hope
- Joey Slotnick as Larry
- Elle Fanning as Penelope
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
73%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It's a nice little movie.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Fresh
Cheese is such a small, endearing and well-observed piece -- sort of Curb Your Enthusiasm without the excruciating bits.
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
Rotten
Despite Garlin's chops and cameos from a who's who of Second City alumni, the film can't find a consistent comic groove.
David Fear, Time Out New York
Rotten
Garlin's directing has little pacing, and many of the borderline gags could have been salvaged with some sharper editing. And there's a shocking amount of jokes and situations that just don't work.
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle
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