Dental hygienist Laura Pehlke's marriage has become sexless and dysfunctional. Because she drinks and smokes too much and has let her appearance go, she suspects her husband is cheating on her. When he suddenly dies, she finds herself giving in to her controlling sister and mother who push her into initiating a lawsuit against her husband's doctor and sending her introverted, troubled son to an elite private school he doesn't want to attend. Things get more complicated when s... (Full plot summary below)
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Dental hygienist Laura Pehlke's marriage has become sexless and dysfunctional. Because she drinks and smokes too much and has let her appearance go, she suspects her husband is cheating on her. When he suddenly dies, she finds herself giving in to her controlling sister and mother who push her into initiating a lawsuit against her husband's doctor and sending her introverted, troubled son to an elite private school he doesn't want to attend. Things get more complicated when she finds her son has told classmates his father is a dead 9/11 hero and her brother-in-law confesses he's always loved her, not her sister. Laura needs "a little help" to deal with her life.
Leave your thoughts about A Little Help.
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt's manipulative, yes, but clever and persuasive in its manipulations. |
| New York PostKyle SmithFile this one in the same category of edgy Long Island comedies as the equally smart 2009 Alec Baldwin film "Lymelife." |
| Entertainment WeeklyKeith StaskiewiczFischer's performance is sweet and subtle, but the film can be so understated in tone and plot that it's hard to tell if it's actually saying anything. |
| Screen InternationalTim GriersonSuffused with feeling but dramatically wobbly, this modest character piece's embrace of life's emotional messiness ends up hurting more than helping the proceedings. |
| Cleveland Plain DealerClint O'ConnorJenna Fischer shows off her dramatic chops but her downer film is a bit aimless. |
| Television Without PityEthan AlterIt's a shame that the characters that orbit the film's star are far more predictably written and performed. |
| RedEyeMatt PaisFischer flexes real-deal acting chops as a woman who's lost control of her life, learning that when parents lie, soon kids lie too. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaThis is one of the smarter, more honest scripts to be filmed in quite some time. And Jenna Fischer, star of "The Office," gives one of the smarter, more honest - and vulnerable, and tough - performances by an actress on the big screen in an even longer stretch. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongA Little Help doesn't dazzle, and you can pick at its parts, but Fischer's performance gives the movie a sense of romantic weariness that lingers. Life is a series of disasters to be weathered, no matter how cute you are. |
| Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreAn odd duck of a period piece dramedy, a wonderfully detailed character-study set on Long Island a year after the 9/11 attacks." |
