La magia de los pequeños detalles

Playing the latest in a long line of world-weary schlubs, Broderick evinces sympathy where other actors might not...

...sells its clichés so effectively and without guile they seem fresh in the telling.

The offbeat humor that emerges from Ben’s take-no-prisoners pessimism also helps tremendously, by giving the movie toughness and grit.

...perfectly poisoned comic misery from Matthew Broderick, that you forgive the fact that you've seen it all before.

...watching a dweebish depressive learn that Life Is Good is a lesson of diminishing returns.