Excuse Me for Living
Excuse Me for Living
NR | 12 October 2012 (USA)
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A charming, suicidal druggie must obey his rehab-clinic's demand to lead a seniors men's group or face incarceration and lose the love of his psychiatrist's daughter.

Reviews
Michael Ledo

This film tries to be funny following formula and using pretentious dialog. It is in search of a theme, which it never achieves.After a failed attempt at suicide, Dan (Tom Pelphrey) is placed in psychiatric care under Dr. Bernstein (Robert Vaughn). The movie takes on a theme of "It's a small world" when Daniel starts dating the doctors daughter (Melissa Archer), has a fling with a woman (Ewa Da Cruz) who turns out to be her friend, his parents (Wayne Knight) divorce attorney, and a lover of a man (James McCaffrey) in his support group.Christopher Lloyd plays a caricature role as a patient pretending to be a doctor. I couldn't help but not laugh and cringe at the bad writing.Parental Guide: F-bombs. Sexual situations/talk. brief male rear nudity (Tom Pelphrey) Cleavage, bra/panties.

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I think the problem was "too many fish in the pond" You had a great story with the character of Dan going over the edge. The fact that he was put in a place where he had to go to meetings with older men could have been a heart wrenching gem. Great idea. Unfort. it got muddled with all these weird side stories. I kept saying "huh?" The whole strange character of Charlotte was wacko and unneeded. I love Christopher Lloyd but he was over the top and would have been better in the mens group. Jerry Stillers comedic timing was way under utilized.Tom Pelphrey is an actor with great range who could have really made a mark with this.Its really too bad. Hopefully he will find a role that will showcase his talent.

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mikki hughes

I thought the movie was cute, funny and very entertaining.I enjoyed it. "Laura" played by Melissa Archer, was sexy, adorable and surprising!The movie seemed to come to life when she entered the scene and the interplay with her and Dan, Tom Pelphrey's character who was a hoot, was very well done! I liked Dan and I liked Laura and the two together,there just should have been more of it. I think that's my biggest complaint, I wish there was more focus on the lead character falling for the psychiatrist's daughter (who I was left wanting to know more about, who she really was),since they clicked so well chemistry wise and his time at the senior men's club. Also there seemed to be two separate stories going on, that of the attorney and the older professor and what the movie was actually about. I found that distracting and unnecessary. Saying all that, it was a perfect date night or girl's night out film. It's got a little something for everyone. Your boyfriend will thank you for dragging him along and the gals get a treat too.

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Grace Foster

I really loved this movie because it had a bit of everything, and it had all the things I like in movies overall. I'm a big fan of romantic comedies, and Ric Klass did a great job with the writing and the production of this film. It was great seeing a lot of my favorite veterans return to the screen (like Chris Lloyd, Jerry Stiller, Robert Vaughan, Wayne Knight, etc), as well as introducing so many of the younger stars. Melissa Archer is a very good young talent and would love to see her in more films, as well as Tom Pelphrey and David Gregory! I could see Tom being another Timothy Hutton in dramatic comedies in the future. Melissa Archer is a versatile and energetic actress who has a wealth of possibilities.

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