I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With

Jeff Garlin, best known for his role as Larry David's manager on Curb Your Enthusiasm, has directed standup comedy specials for Jon Stewart and Denis Leary, and makes his feature-film debut with his own adaptation of his one-man stage show, I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With. Garlin stars as James, ...more

Although it has been released theatrically, Jeff Garlin's I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With really belongs in a small-screen setting. Not that it's a bad movie -- it's a clever, sometimes very effective comedy, with some excruciatingly funny scenes (involving not only star-writer-director Jeff Garlin, but also David Pasquesi, Dan Castellaneta, and Joey Slotnick); and some of what it has to say about romance and ambition is painfully valid, in terms of the contradictions people bring to both ...more