The Trouble with Bliss (2012)
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Reviews Counted: 17
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 12
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Average Rating: 3.3/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 6
No consensus yet.
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The Trouble with Bliss tells the story of 35-year-old Morris Bliss (Michael C. Hall), who is clamped firmly in the jaws of New York City inertia. He wants to travel but has no money; he needs a job but has no prospects; and he still shares an apartment with his widowed father (Peter Fonda), who treats Morris with a mix of disdain and exasperation. When he finds himself juggling a bizarre relationship with the sexually precocious 18-year-old daughter (Brie Larson) of a former classmate and the
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Cast
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Michael C. Hall
Morris Bliss -
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Brie Larson
Stephanie Jouseski -
Brad William Henke
Steven "Jetski" Jousesk... -
Sarah Shahi
Hattie Skunk/Hattie Roc... -
Peter Fonda
Seymour Bliss -
Lucy Liu
Andrea -
Scott Johnsen
George -
Carol Lambert
Stephanie's Grandmother -
Glenn Kubota
Mr. Charlies -
Mary Goggin
Mrs. Cruxo -
Melanie Torres
The Cindi -
Joshua Alscher
Torc -
Liz Holtan
May -
Kate Simses
Nancy -
Gameela Wright
Nadine -
Dana Raja
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Carl Villa Roman
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All Critics (17) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (12)
Hall does what he can, but Michael Knowles' film does such a thorough job portraying the ennui and aimlessness gripping its protagonist that the feeling is contagious.
Top CriticThe difficulties of adapting idiosyncratic literature to the screen are all too apparent in The Trouble With Bliss.
Striving mightily to be the indie equivalent of a wacky sitcom, "The Trouble With Bliss" fails to draw much humor from farcical situations.
The kind of movie that gives a bad name to the concept of "quirky."
Without much actual character to latch on to, most of the actors seem lost and awkward, even the usually dependable Hall.
Knowles and Light indulge in so many indie clichés, their movie could be used as a film-school case study.
The Trouble With Bliss intriguingly showcases the numerous struggles people face as they reflect on their life paths.
Packs a lot of Lower East Side quirkiness into 97 minutes. Maybe too much.
Less than the comic sum of its sardonic parts "The Trouble With Bliss" is a triviality.
The trouble with Bliss isn't that he's lazy... it's that he's boring.
Indie pap, populated by determinedly eccentric characters you don't give a toss about.
The trouble is they keep trying to make movies about it.
Populated with unlikely occurrences and oddball characters, it plays out, to put it most complimentary, like a dull, slower moving After Hours.
The film aims to present a mosaic of crazy New York life, but instead seems more like a shaggy-dog story being spun out by an easily distracted barfly over the course of an idle afternoon.
Michael Knowles directs with all the complexity of a TV sitcom.
Audience Reviews for The Trouble with Bliss
Great performances! So-so film!
Super Reviewer
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- NJ: I'll send you some.... buffali hide.
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- Seymour Bliss: I'm not running a hot-sheet hotel here you know! Is this where all my money's been going?
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- Seymour Bliss: When I was 35 I had a son, a job, an apartment of my own. See what I'm saying?
- Morris Bliss: Not really.
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- Stephanie Jouseski: Oh by the way, my mom is just thrilled you are taking me to prom.
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This is a quirky little film, but I really enjoyed it. Story does go off a little at times, but it's mostly good with excellent cast and likeable or interesting characters.