You Hurt My Feelings

[Opens May 26 in theaters.] Nicole Holofcener's engaging, realistic, well-written, superbly acted, wit-dotted, bittersweet, thought-provoking, star-studded (Amber Tamblyn, David Cross, Zach Cherry, Jeannie Berlin, Sarah Steele, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Sunita Mani, and Deniz Akdeniz), 93-minute comedy in which white lies run rampant and are exposed when a New York City writing professor (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) learns that her longtime, supportive therapist husband (Tobias Menzies) did not like her memoir when she and her home decorator sister (Michaela Watkins) overheard him talking with her struggling actor brother-in-law (Arian Moayed) and then her wannabe writer son (Owen Teague) working at a pot dispensary reveals his unhappiness about the well-intentioned lies his parents told him while growing up that ultimately had a negative effect on his confidence and self-esteem.
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