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Dealin' With Idiots Photos

(L-R) Jeff Garlin, Richard Kind and Kerri Kenney in "Dealing With Idiots."

(L-R) Nia Vardalos, Jami Gertz, Richard Kind, Kerri Kenney and Gina Gershon in "Dealing With Idiots."

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Movie Info

A comic looks for inspiration for his next movie among the absurdly competitive parents and coaches involved with his son's youth-baseball league.

Genre:

comedy
Original Language:

English
Director:

Jeff Garlin
Producer:

Erin O'Malley, Christine Vachon
Writer:

Jeff Garlin, Peter Murrieta
Release Date (Theaters):

Jul 12, 2013 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Nov 30, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA):

$15.3K
Runtime:

1h 23m

Cast & Crew

Jeff Garlin
Max Morris

Gina Gershon
Sophie

Nia Vardalos
Ava Morris

Jami Gertz
Rosie

Fred Willard
Marty

Richard Kind
Harold

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Critic Reviews for Dealin' With Idiots

All Critics (19) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (12)

"Dealin' With Idiots," a sort of "Waiting for Guffman" for Little League, isn't a great movie, but it's a heck of a lot better than its title.

August 15, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Kerry Lengel
Arizona Republic
[A] flat, aimless comedy skewering the parents of junior baseball players.

July 19, 2013 | Full Review…

Justin Chang
Variety
Garlin's ultra-restrained approach suggests that attempting hilarity is sometimes a veiled defense mechanism.

July 19, 2013 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…

Eric Kohn
indieWire
The movie was largely improvised, which lends itself more to scenes than a feature-length film.

July 18, 2013 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Farran Smith Nehme
New York Post
There are a few inspired moments, but Garlin goes for easy laughs, and the actors' broad improvisations often fall flat.

July 18, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
This isn't actually a movie about kiddie sports - it's a movie about Garlin interviewing the other parents and players to see if there's an interesting movie to be made at all. Answer: There isn't.

July 18, 2013 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

Amy Nicholson
Los Angeles Times
Garlin's second feature is consistently sweet, funny and smart. Keep it up.

July 19, 2013 | Rating: 8.4/10 | Full Review…

Annlee Ellingson
Paste Magazine
To fully appreciate Dealin' with Idiots, the viewer must have some working knowledge of its writer/director/star Jeff Garlin. Or perhaps patience is a more accurate description.

July 18, 2013 | Rating: B- | Full Review…

Brian Orndorf
Blu-ray.com
Much of Dealin' with Idiots feels improvised, which is okay when the actors are fully on their game. But here, perhaps the heat of the day and location or insufficiently precise direction have resulted in an awful lot of dead screen time.

July 18, 2013 | Full Review…

David Noh
Film Journal International
Dealin' With Idiots is at its strongest when it forgets about plot ... altogether (which is most of the time) and gives itself over to the laid-back pleasure of improvisation among veteran professionals finding and exploring a good groove together.

July 16, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Nathan Rabin
The Dissolve
There's not much point in making a film about how different and dumb people are without giving the judgmental, one-man Greek chorus his own legitimate comeuppance.

July 11, 2013 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…

Matt Pais
RedEye
Laid back, and a funny, veteran cast makes it feel improvised even if it isn't

July 9, 2013 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Roger Moore
Tribune News Service