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Dir: Craig Johnson (15, 94 mins)
Daniel Clowes’ graphic novel gets turned into celluloid, but this, despite the starry cast, is not as successful a media change as Ghost World. Woody Harrelson stars as Wilson, a supposedly likeable curmudgeonly bag of quirks who, unfortunately, is often just plain annoying. He’s a loner, irritating people on buses, but that changes when he finds out that his substance-abusing ex-wife (Laura Dern), whom he hasn’t seen for 17 years, had a child with him but put her up for adoption. The pair track their daughter down, an overweight emo teen played by Isabella Amara, and try to reconnect with her. Dern’s sister (Cheryl Hines) throws a spanner into the works, however, and the happiness they may have found seems short-lived. Much of the film clings heavily to its source material, which works better on the page than in life; the cast do their best, but it’s hard to care for them and their idiosyncratic plight.
Opens June 9