
Intertwining stories exploring the bad in the best of us and the good in the worst of us. Against the backdrop of a child abduction case we follow five days in the life of the single parent detective assigned to the case, her best friend whose determination to get pregnant keeps her from confronting her husband's infidelity, a school teacher and his obsession with the missing child that pushes him to the edge of vigilantism, a beat cop grieving over the violent death of his w... (Full plot summary below)
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Intertwining stories exploring the bad in the best of us and the good in the worst of us. Against the backdrop of a child abduction case we follow five days in the life of the single parent detective assigned to the case, her best friend whose determination to get pregnant keeps her from confronting her husband's infidelity, a school teacher and his obsession with the missing child that pushes him to the edge of vigilantism, a beat cop grieving over the violent death of his wife, a recovering addict and her wheel chair bound brother preparing for the LA marathon, and a self-loathing African American TV writer's search for love.
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| Boston HeraldJames VerniereIn the inexplicably titled 'Answers to Nothing,' a film you might inadvertently wander into this weekend if you're unlucky |
| AV ClubNathan RabinFilms like these have taught us that suffering is the incontrovertible existential fate of attractive Los Angeles residents. Must these dour exercises in alienation make audiences suffer as well? |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfSome impassioned performances ease the flow of gloom, but it's a long, steady walk to the noose for a picture in dire need of Prozac and some fresh air. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe interlocking stories are theoretically about people whose lives are associated; that worked in "Crash." Here the connections seem less immediate and significant, and so the movie sometimes seems based on a group of separate short stories. |
| VarietyDennis HarveyStitching together a quilt of stories involving disparate Angelenos in the mode of "Magnolia" and "Short Cuts" and myriad other crisscrossers, this somber drama is well crafted and watchable but lacks the distinctive story content, style and standout performances to become more than a serviceable reboot of familiar ideas. |
| NewsdayRafer GuzmanNearly a dozen random themes and characters have been Scotch-taped together into a single mess. |
| New York TimesNeil GenzlingerSome fine performances and an embrace of understatement make Matthew Leutwyler's oddly titled Answers to Nothing a respectable entry in the multiple-stories-that-interlock genre. |
| Chicago ReaderAndrea GronvallAmong the other characters are an African-American TV writer (Kali Hawk) who hates black people and a widower (Erik Palladino) who stumbles onto a kidnapping case. The latter development provides the film with a denouement that's dramatically valid if overly neat. |
| New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierApparently, it takes a village - or the collection of villages known as Los Angeles - to go nowhere slowly. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinThere's a lack of real conclusiveness to many of the film's characters and situations. |