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Bad Therapy

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Michaela Watkins

Alicia Silverstone

Rob Corddry

Anna Pniowsky

David Paymer

Aisha Tyler

Sarah Shahi

Haley Joel Osment

Dichen Lachman

John Ross Bowie

Ginger Gonzaga

Sunkrish Bala

Erik Griffin

Paris Bravo

Angela Oh

Marcelo Tubert

Jack Axelrod

Brett Hoyle

Flula Borg

Craig Robert Young

Gavin Leatherwood

Chido Nwokocha

Straw Weisman

Aggie Guerard Rodgers

Nancy Doyne

William Teitler

Andrew Francis

David Leonard

Rob Givens

Lisa Van Allsburg

Alison Sadler

Brooks Kephart

Gina Resnick

Kyle Heller

Emily Schweber

Sandra Leong

Nathan Larson

Edward Scully

James Wilder Hancock

Nick Fischer

Matt Berbano

Kristina Goldberg

James Wallace

Miroslav Kogosov

Kelsey Rose

Gerda Holmqvist

Yuval Lion

Hans-Inge Magnusson

Patrick J. Statham

Drew Crawle

Ryan 'Sparks' Lynch

Judd Greener

Kris Hutchinson

Lisa Wax

Reggie Hill

Skip Lievsay

Wyatt Sprague

Matthew Haasch

Jay Peck

Bartek Swiatek

Ana Lozano

Artie Gonzales

Blaine G. Houserman

Troy Joyner

Isabel Teitler

Charles Leighton

Jordan L. Ross

Avy Kaufman

Michael A. Desmond

Jeremy Kiddle

Chanèle Casaubon

Madeline G. Phelps

Mark Miskell

John Escobedo Sr.

Henry Brown

Eliza Paley

Aaron Steele-Nicholson

Tina Thorpe

Sean Spillane

Adrian Estrella

Savannah Salter

Adam Sonnenfeld

Larry Zipf

Rachel Wardell

Clenét Verdi-Rose

P.J. Russ

Josh Hack

Travis Sullivan

Serena Saylors

Marcy Brooks

Timothy Clarke

Molly Irelan

Danny Roy

Ron Quitevis

Alex Sandoval

Svala Gregorsson

Ysabel Riina

Johnny Escobedo Jr.

Jacob Davidson

Nathan Krosley

Illiana Larsdottir

Sondra Locke

Kevin Huie

M'Saada Nia

Michael Feuser

Melanie Lavender

Porshawna Mosely

Cesar Castillo

Chris Serafin

Jennifer Levy

Cole S. McKay

Doran Meyers

Dominic D'Astice

Lukas Kozewski

Corinne Wedlake

Bob Howard (Rob Corddry) is married to Susan (Alicia Silverstone). He wants to have a baby; she's not so sure, and rightly so – a pregnancy at Silverstone's 43 years of age might be dangerous, not to mention that by the time the child turns 21, Corddry will be 70.

It slowly dawned on me that Corddry and Silverstone are, on paper, playing characters much younger than themselves. Bob and Susan attend couples therapy with Dr. Judy Small (Michaela Watkins), and Susan says she married her late first husband and had daughter Louisa (Anna Pniowsky) in college.

This would put her in her in the early-to-mid-30s range. She also says that Bob was 39 when they got married, and Bob says they've been married for three years, so he would be 42 instead of Corddry's 49. I've loved Alicia ever since Clueless and the Aerosmith videos, but neither she nor Corddry are young enough or good enough actors to get us to suspend our disbelief about their characters' ages.

This isn't the biggest leap of faith Bad Therapy hopes we'll make, though; on top of that he expects us to believe that Corddry is, in the words of Judy Small (for some reason everyone keeps calling her by her full name name; this the movie's idea of a running gag), "an extremely attractive man" – to the point that three beautiful women such as Silverstone, Watkins, and Sarah Shahi succumb to his charms. Who knows? Maybe he has the kavorka.

If the movie were the least bit interesting or entertaining, its protagonists' ages would matter little. Unfortunately, Bad Therapy forces us to focus on such petty details to keep ourselves from thinking about its horrible characters – especially Bob, whose implicit and explicit sleaziness is the movie's ruin.

Here's a man who would have happily cheated on his wife twice, and only stops short of the actual deed because he's interrupted both times – and yet we're supposed to feel good for Susan when she reconciles with him.

The most inexplicable and unforgivable aspect of the movie, however, is when Susan suggests that Bob has started seeing 13-year-old Louise in a not-so-fatherly way. Even if the film had been on the right track before – and it never was – this is a blow from which it could never recover.

The notion is abandoned almost as soon as it is introduced – which makes it even more disconcerting –, but the stench of pedophilia lingers in the air and, unless you're Todd Solondz, that is not the mood you want your comedy to evoke (incidentally, Pniowsky is the only one who survives this disaster with her dignity intact).

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Michaela Watkins

Alicia Silverstone

Rob Corddry

Anna Pniowsky

David Paymer

Aisha Tyler

Sarah Shahi

Haley Joel Osment

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