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  • 2007
  • TV-PG
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2007
  • TV-PG
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 20 m

Summary James is a frustrated and underappreciated Chicago actor who lives with his mother and has only really wanted three things in life: someone to love him, a great part, and to lose weight. Unfortunately, he is 0 for 3. His girlfriend dumps him, he loses the title roles in a remake of Paddy Chayefsky’s Marty to teen idol Aaron Carter, an...

Directed By: Jeff Garlin

Written By: Jeff Garlin

  • 2007
  • TV-PG
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2007
  • TV-PG
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 20 m

I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
60
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 12 User Ratings
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Summary James is a frustrated and underappreciated Chicago actor who lives with his mother and has only really wanted three things in life: someone to love him, a great part, and to lose weight. Unfortunately, he is 0 for 3. His girlfriend dumps him, he loses the title roles in a remake of Paddy Chayefsky’s Marty to teen idol Aaron Carter, an...

Directed By: Jeff Garlin

Written By: Jeff Garlin

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
60
72% Positive
13 Reviews
22% Mixed
4 Reviews
6% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
60
72% Positive
13 Reviews
22% Mixed
4 Reviews
6% Negative
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75
It is a minor movie, but a big-time minor movie...If there is such a thing as a must-see three-star movie, here it is.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
75
A wry movie that, packed with his well-known friends and scored intermittently to bouncy accordion music, plays like a softer episode of "Curb."
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70
May be one of the wisest studies of urban loneliness since Paddy Chayefsky's "Marty."
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63
Cheese is written with plenty of sophisticated wit, but it is not quite convincing as a movie.
By Marta Barber FULL REVIEW
63
Slight but charming.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
50
James and Beth have fun in a grocery store pretending to be different characters meeting in the aisles. As they learn, sometimes the moment works, sometimes it doesn't. The same can be said for this unfailingly modest film.
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25
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.
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17% Mixed
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33% Negative
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Production Company 3 Arts Entertainment, Sawin' & Puddin' Productions LLC, The Weinstein Company
Release Date Sep 5, 2007
Duration 1 h 20 m
Rating TV-PG
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Tagline Sometimes love is just a big bowl of wrong.
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