Brian Weathersby (Paul Dano) sells insanely high price mattresses in NYC. It's an indie of his life with all kinds of random quirky characters. Happy Lolly (Zooey Deschanel) is the daughter of Al (John Goodman) who purchased a mattress for $14k. He wants to adopt a Chinese baby. She's flaky. They hit it off.This is filled with great actors I love. They seem to be doing good work. I should like this, but the story is a series of meandering scenes that drives aimlessly. They crawl along without any sense of drama. It's a battle of the quirky characters, and nobody really wins in this.

This decent faux-indie film is ruined by pro-capitalist & anti-poor propaganda. Some of which is implicit (even subliminal) & some of which is overtly explicit.Firstly, one message of this film seems to be that capitalism is good, in fact it gets you laid. Secondly, another message is that homeless & working people are bad, they attack you in the street for no reason! This is evidenced in one scene where the guy says to the other that he got laid with a girl who's father bought a mattress from him & the other guy's reply is "God bless capitalism". To me, a blatant association of our elitist political system with sex.At certain points in the film the lead is attacked by someone whom he describes as a homeless guy, but is at times dressed as a worker. Whether the guy is a figment of the lead's imagination or not, the negative subliminal association of poor/working person & uninitiated violence is made.Later, they crack open a piñata & he says he has them made to look like dictators. Now it's very easy to point at the crimes of others. Why didn't he have some evil American politicians made like Nixon or Kissinger (who helped killed 5 million+ in Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos) or some figures of British Imperialism (who killed just as many as Stalin)? No, only non-capitalist murderers are worthy of our attention & that is the type of blatant propaganda you expect from Hollywood Blockbusters.Where is the anti-consumerist, anti-materialist, anti-elitist & anti-status quo message I expect from productions with a supposedly individualistic non-conformist perspective?

spoilers, and not only on this film. you've been warned.This was a decent film, but it certainly had it's weird and frankly, badly written moments.It's about a 28 year old matrass salesman, Brian. We know that he is 28, because his father had him when he was 52 and he's going to his father 80th birthday.He then meets this girl, a daughter of a customer.I really thought this was some book adaptation gone bad, because out of the blue, this girl wants to have sex with Brian.Also, his attacker pulls a Tyler Durden on him, which is never explained.It seems people are upset this is marketed as a rom-com. I mean, get over it, it's not the filmmakers responsibility to deal with marketing.This is a good film, with great actors, some of which are under used, like Clarke Peters and Leven Rambin, although she's kinda overrated.But the story has loose ends, and not in a good, open-ended kind of way.7/10 The Melancholic Alcoholic.

Is there a such thing as a negative number here? This movie sucked! Why is there no zero here? They want me to write 10 lines about this crappy movie. Okay then. Sucks Sucks Sucks, how's that? Had possibilities, but they got lost. The attacker/s never explained. After killing the attacker, life just goes on. This movie does not speak well of any adoption agency. Only Sharon Stone's "The Quick and The Dead" sucked any worse. Keep the 98 minutes of your life from being wasted. I can't get the time I wasted on this movie back. Anymore than the time I am wasting trying to get ten lines to say about this movie. Is anybody wealthy enough to pay $14k for a mattress.Grynne