Greenberg (2010)

While his brother's family is vacationing in Viet Nam for several weeks, Roger (Ben Stiller) comes to stay in their California home to "do nothing for a while."

He's definitely misanthropic - he judges everyone harshly, routinely alienates those with whom he comes in contact, and is far from socially apt - but he also definitely needs the company, attention, and chauffeuring of others. I wasn't turned off by Roger, but rather my heart went out to him in a burst of understanding -- which is what I think happened with the lovely Florence. She and the family dog work on him, seemingly against his will, to make him care.

Something about this film just got to me.

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