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Numb

2007 · 93 min

A wry, low-key comedy about emotional flatness that drifts between deadpan jokes and quiet sadness, easy to watch but tinged with melancholy.

Directed by
Harris Goldberg
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Overview
Hudson Milbank is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who suddenly and strangely finds himself without any emotional feelings. He tries doctor after doctor and shrink after shrink, but nothing works. The Golf Channel, lesbian exercise classes and a dizzying variety of pills get him through the day, but don't quite solve his problem. His writing partner tries everything to get him back to normal, but it's not until Hudson meets Sara that he finds a real motivation to get better and to actually start feeling again. From the writer of Deuce Bigalow, comes NUMB, a romantic comedy following an unusual man looking for strange love.

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Directed by
Harris Goldberg
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • identity
  • love
  • healing
  • loneliness
Places
  • big city
  • home
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour5
Realism7
Romance6
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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