A Little Help

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2010 / 109min.

Rating5.4

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Synopsis

It's a movie for everyone whose life has been thrown off-course, out of whack, or simply not turned out the way they planned it. In other words, it's a movie for everyone, period. Set in suburban Long Island in the summer of 2002, with the psychic wounds of 9/11 still fresh, A Little Help is a story that takes a comic, searching and profoundly empathetic look at a few pivotal months in the life of dental hygienist Laura Pehlke (Jenna Fischer)-an ordinary woman whose life suddenly flies off the rails-and her heroic efforts to re-establish a sense of security and normalcy for herself and her son.

Directors

Michael J. Weithorn

Actors

Chris O'Donnell

Matt Oberg

Jenna Fischer

Kim Coates

Brooke Smith

Lesley Ann Warren

Jay Klaitz

James Rebhorn

Sam McMurray

Shari Albert

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