SummaryJames is a frustrated and underappreciated Chicago actor who lives with his mother and has only really wanted three things in life: someone to love him, a great part, and to lose weight. Unfortunately, he is 0 for 3. His girlfriend dumps him, he loses the title roles in a remake of Paddy Chayefsky’s Marty to teen idol Aaron Carter, and he snea... Read More
Directed By:Jeff Garlin
Written By:Jeff Garlin
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
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60
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5.6
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
60
72% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
22% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
6% Negative
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1 Review
75
It is a minor movie, but a big-time minor movie...If there is such a thing as a must-see three-star movie, here it is.
75
A wry movie that, packed with his well-known friends and scored intermittently to bouncy accordion music, plays like a softer episode of "Curb."
70
May be one of the wisest studies of urban loneliness since Paddy Chayefsky's "Marty."
63
Cheese is written with plenty of sophisticated wit, but it is not quite convincing as a movie.
63
Slight but charming.
50
James and Beth have fun in a grocery store pretending to be different characters meeting in the aisles. As they learn, sometimes the moment works, sometimes it doesn't. The same can be said for this unfailingly modest film.
25
Garlin's directing has little pacing, and many of the borderline gags could have been salvaged with some sharper editing. And there's a shocking amount of jokes and situations that just don't work.
User score
Mixed or Average
5.6
50% Positive
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
21% Mixed
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29% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
Dec 21, 2010
7
Having been a huge Jeff Garlin fan for years, especially after seeing him on Curb Your Enthusiasm, I was surprised to see this little self-written and self-directed nugget from him and a similar band of improv's best in Sarah Silverman, Amy Sedaris, Richard Kind, Dan Castellaneta and quite possibly my favorite overall entertainer, Bonnie Hunt. The premise of the movie is real and precious. Knowing that he wrote this and the fact that his character's acting background seems very similar to his own acting background, I can't help but think this was rooted at some real-life feelings and experiences. It's an adorable, sometimes sad, view of love later in life. The ending was a bit sudden and took me off guard, but it was precious nonetheless.
