A comedy with no laughs. A drama disconnected from any known reality.
It’s tempting to diagnose “Are You Here” with schizophrenic genre
disorder. But that just sounds like an excuse to cover up what it
really is, an unmitigated mess that feels the need to present yet more
iterations of that tired Hollywood species known as man-child
run-amok-ous.
Sometimes it tries to be a “Broadcast News”-style comedy, with Owen Wilson as the type of smarmy philandering moocher he has done countless times before. The difference here is that he is a local TV weatherman in Annapolis,
Md., who makes Bill Murray’s on-air forecaster in “Groundhog Day” seem