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YOU HURT MY FEELINGS MOVIE REVIEW
We all fib. We all tell harmless, little white lies to spare the feelings of the people we love. Hell, we even lie to yourselves, just to get through the day. It’s the trivial things, like telling someone you like the meal they made for you or that their haircut looks great. It’s a way for all of us to maintain social harmony. And yeah, those well-intentioned lies are meant to protect the feelings of people we care about or have to deal with regularly. Honesty can be a divider, in some cases. So, we lie. But what happens if we find out that someone hasn’t exactly been honest with us? How to we react to the truth that’s been kept from us — the truth of someone’s actual opinion? That’s exactly what You Hurt My Feelings asks. Julia Louis Dreyfus (VEEP) plays Beth, a novelist struggling to write her second book. Her husband Don, played by Tobias Menzies (Outlander), is a psychologist who is starting to feel like he’s lost a step or two. Their wonderfully, loving marriage is suddenly upended when Beth accidentally overhears Don give his honest negative thoughts and feelings to her latest book, which he’s been very complimentary about for months. Beth feels betrayal, and Don doesn’t know what he did wrong. And Kim, Frank, and T.C. are happy to share their truthful opinions on this all-too-real story of the truth hurting just as much as lies, even when intentions are good.
DIRECTED BY: Nicole Holofcener
STARRING: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tobia Menzies, Michaela Watkins, Arian Moayed, Owen Teague, Jeannie Berlin, Amber Tamblyn, David Cross, Zach Cherry, Sarah Steele, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Sunita Mani, Deniz Akdeniz, Clara Wong
YOUR REVIEWERS
T.C. De Witt (Screener Squad)
T.C. De Witt is a multi-awarded writer/director originally from Wisconsin and now based in Los Angeles. His life has been devoted to the arts since he was a child. He’s been a stage performer, playwright, stand-up comic, film and television actor, radio DJ, podcaster published author, recorded musician, and comic writer/illustrator. He is now a professional screenwriter and has been thriving for the past decade, regularly offering his talents to production studios in LA, Chicago, Milwaukee, and internationally in Sydney and Poland. He’s provided content for Amazon Prime, Netflix, and several YouTube partners. His films have screened internationally, and his stageplays have been performed across the country. In the last ten years, he has directed 57 films, 23 episodes of his series The One Minute Rewatch, 300+ episodes of podcasts, and his multi-award-winning short film Screen: Righter screened at the Festival de Cannes in 2016. He has released two feature films, The Princess Knight and A Christmas Sunset. He thrives on collaboration and the thrill of sharing stories in all forms.
Kimberly Brown (Highly Suspect Reviews)
Kimberly wants to live in a world filled with blue telephone boxes, speedsters, and ice dragons but through an ironic twist of fate, she’s stuck in this reality where these wondrous things only exist on page or film. Kim’s perpetual desire to consume sci-fi and fantasy media as a teen led her to the study of illustration/design at university to better understand its creation. Currently an Austin transplant, when she’s not wearing her critic hat you can find her pretending to like hiking, fielding questions about her hair or maybe even enjoying a local brew at the nearest dive bar.
Frank Calvillo (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad)
Born and raised in South Texas, Frank currently lives in Austin and has been in love with movies ever since his father showed him some Three Stooges shorts when he was five years old. Today he loves all kinds of film, regardless of era, country, budget or genre. He believes every film has an audience and is at least one person’s favorite movie. After writing for Sight & Sound and Slackerwood, he now writes for Cinapse where his increasingly random taste in all flavors of cinema (from Rashomon to Mars Attacks!) continues to thrive. His ultimate goal is to write a script for his boyhood crush, Michelle Pfeiffer.
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