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How to Be (2008)

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Genre: Comedies

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: What do you do when you're hit by a "quarter-life crisis"? Turn your life into a hip version of The Odd Couple. At first fancying himself an "enigmatic poet," twentysomething Art (Robert...

At first fancying himself an "enigmatic poet," twentysomething Art (Robert Pattinson), gradually realizes that he must take action if he's going to escape his depressed life as a struggling musician in London. A solution comes in the shape of a book titled "It's Not Your Fault." Not content to just draw inspiration from its pages, however, Art invites the elderly author of the book to come live with him and his parents, which quickly becomes a painfully funny journey about dysfunction and growing up. --© IFC Films [More]

Starring: Robert Pattinson, Rebecca Pidgeon

Director: Oliver Irving

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An astonishingly irrelevant piece of work...

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11/18/09

David Nusair

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A kind of problem child with whiskers bitten by love in this delayed coming of age family dyfunction outing, Pattinson impresses with his broad range, while doing daffy and despair at the same time.

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11/13/09

Prairie Miller

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Fans who love 'RPattz' even more than Edward Cullen should be satisfied. They'll be the only ones.

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04/29/09

Geoff Berkshire

Metromix.com

Filled with British humor so dry that it's down-right parched. (Still, if you're a big fan of Robert Pattinson, I suspect you won't be disappointed.)

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03/03/09

Steve Rhodes

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