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Numb is too much hard work

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Writer-director Harris Goldberg’s film has Matthew Perry as a depressed writer with a "depersonalisation" disorder he got from smoking too much pot. His doctors recommend psychiatrists. The psychiatrists, when not asleep, recommend going out into the world and finding some company, preferably female.

One of the shrinks (Mary Steenburgen) is as needy as he is and goes to bed with him. But the girl he really wants is a film company executive (Lynn Collins) who seems to like wounded souls. Somehow Goldberg, Perry and especially the charming Collins make this traipse through acute depression intriguing and occasionally funny. But it’s a bit of a slog.

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