A charismatic David Krumholtz plays the titular lit professor
Directed by Bob Byington. Starring David Krumholtz, Jocelyn DeBoer, Luxy Banner, Stephen Root, Martin Starr, Olivia Thirlby, Macon Blair, Lee Eddy, Andrew Bujalski.Nobody is as invested in miserable bastards as Austin-based filmmaker Bob Byington. He is the bard of the gleeful underachiever. Those that do not fail but instead succeed in their aggressive pursuit of failure. Losers who embrace their self-destruction as a badge of honor in a worthless world.
And he does stack up the insufferabeness: sleeping with the wife of his only friend in the faculty , grousing about everything to his ex , blowing off an old friend and fan , cutting costs on his mother’s funeral, and lazily trying to bang one of his students by getting her to “pose” for his unfinished animated adaptation of Nabokov’s dry run forByington’s target seems to be a twist on the old saw of a man who must reconsider his life in the face of mortality.
Not to be cruel, but this seems like a case of physician, heal thyself. Byington is a talented director with a flair for drawing subtle performances that play deliciously with ennui and happy selfishness. Yetfeels like Bob Byington making a Bob Byington movie with what’s at hand . Oddball and obvious decisions, like having Stephen Root play Lousy’s shrink with a thick German accent, are mixed with line deliveries that would have felt flat in a table reading.
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