An exceptional cast includes a hilarious Ron Leibman as a fossilized ex-sports reporter for this newspaper, and a buzzing, kinetic Kim Coates as a greasy trial lawyer.

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Saddled with an instantly forgettable title, A Little Help is going to need all the help it can get finding its audience, so here's my pitch

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With a little help from films like this, Fischer could trade her small-screen fame for multiplex stardom.

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Fischer's performance is sweet and subtle, but the film can be so understated in tone and plot that it's hard to tell if it's actually saying anything

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"A Little Help" settles for familiar and modest payoffs. It's not much.

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By turns well observed and overstated, "A Little Help" is the gently absurdist drama of a thirtysomething woman's coming of age.

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Still, "A Little Help" is worth watching, mostly for Fischer.

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'A Little Help' review: Jenna Fischer plays subtle middle-age awkwardness to a T in funny dramedy

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Although this isn't a "9/11 film," the emotional fragility caused by the tragedy plays a supporting role.

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Having said that, the movie still suffers in the end as a result of creating too many complications to properly tie up in less than 2 hours.

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An Unsatisfying Life

Buoyed by an easy, natural chemistry, Paul’s scenes with Laura are exceptionally touching, the sadness of the road not taken easily eclipsing the chaos of the path at hand.

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This watchable but fairly inert comedy-drama suggests there should be a board to determine whether a film has the substance to merit folding unspeakable real-life disasters into its plot.

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Plodding Indie A Little Help Needs, Well, A Little Help

It’s not much, but thanks to the noble efforts of a very good cast, I’ve seen worse.

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Jenna Fischer shines in this manipulative dramedy set in ennui-ridden suburbia.

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But the melodrama feels forced - manipulated by filmmakers hell-bent on teaching its main character a lesson or two about life and the need to seize it.

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A Little Help doesn’t settle for the dark comedy it should have been

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Which is exactly what this so-so dramedy could use

... while Fischer handles every emotional curveball, she’s not helped by the film’s reliance on rote notions of piecing your life back together.

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A Sitcom Version of Suburban Angst in A Little Help

..the film is as average and forgettable as most CBS comedies.

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In A Little Help, everyone's deceiving someone—spouses, kids, classmates, themselves—and falling further and further into unhappiness as a result.

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The movie is a tedious collection of arguments: between the hygienist, Laura, and her soon-to-be-late husband (O’Donnell), between her overbearing sister (Brooke Smith) and their brittle mother (Lesley Ann Warren).

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