You Hurt My Feelings

You Hurt My Feelings

A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.

  • Released: 2023-05-26
  • Runtime: 93 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy, Drama
  • Stars: Arian Moayed, Jeannie Berlin, Michaela Watkins, Owen Teague, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tobias Menzies, Amber Tamblyn, David Cross, Zach Cherry, Sarah Steele, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Rebecca Henderson, Deniz Akdeniz, Sunita Mani, Julian Leong, Sue Jean Kim, Clara Wong
  • Director: Nicole Holofcener
 Comments
  • GothamVip - 19 April 2024
    Great little Movie, especially if your are 50 or over.
    I enjoyed this movie. I found it almost cathartic and calming. Definitely an entertaining watch on a Sunday afternoon. I am so exhausted by all the movies that romanticize murderers or take you on a painful emotional journey. Often, I just want a calm escape.

    The acting is very good and the characters are very relatable.

    I think on the surface this is about a relationship but it hits home with issues for people in their 50s and over. The way you look at your career and how others may see you. How we, who grew up in the 70s and 80s, raised our children. When you get to this point in life, I also think you find yourself more concerned about what others think (or thought) about you.

    I can't say what someone in their 20s or 30s today might think. When I was 20 or 30, I would not have found this movie as relatable as I do now in my 50s.
  • gortx - 7 February 2024
    Mildly engaging Holofcener entry
    Write about what you know. That's the advice Beth (Julie Louis-Dreyfuss) dispenses to her writing students. It's also pretty much the path Writer-Director Nicole Holofcener has followed in her six feature films. Her stories center on urban upper middle class professionals.

    Beth is an author who's latest novel hasn't sold yet and it's causing her some stress. Her husband, Don (Tobias Menzies), is a therapist who is also having some career doubts. They have a son (Owen Teague) who wants to be a playwright. Beth's sister, Sarah (Michaela Watkins), is an interior decorator who is becoming disenchanted with her work. Her husband Mark (Arian Moayed) is struggling actor. Plenty of first world angst to go around.

    Holofcener and her cast are good enough to overcome some of the familiar tropes here and the theme of how to tread the line between honesty and (hurting one's) feelings is decently explored. David Cross and Amber Tamblyn as a passive aggressive couple in Don's care are terrific scene stealers. What's missing here is true bite. There's never a sense of either urgency or sharp insights. One never feels that any of the interlocking relationships are truly in peril. A hug, a kiss, or a hit of edible marijuana and all will be fine.

    YOU HURT MY FEELINGS is a pleasant enough little movie, but, it's the epitome of a 'dramedy'- it falls just short of either of it's components.