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A famous stand-up comedian turned movie star is diagnosed with a life threatening disease. Feeling lonely, he hires an up and coming comedian to help write him some material and the two develop an awkward friendship.

Adam Sandler is George Simmons, playing a character that pretty much reflects his own career. Simmons has pretty much become alone, if you discount the meaningless one night stands, who finds himself looking for companionship as he faces his possible death. Seth Rogen is Ira Wright, a stand up comedian who is also a talented writer. No matter what movie Rogen is in and no matter who he is playing, he still has that same annoying laugh.

Director Judd Apatow usually casts his wife, Leslie Mann, in his movies for that I am eternally grateful. Leslie Mann is, to me, gorgeous and very talented. I honestly could watch her for hours, and her acting too! I would hate to have to choose between her and Angelina Jolie…….right!!!

Funny People is darkly funny, with a wicked wit. Lots of one liners that zing back and forth like bullets. Adam Sandler is an under appreciated serious actor who only seems to get props for the silly comedies that made him famous. In this movie he is convincing as a man who has lost a lot of what he had and is feeling empty because of it.

Thanks to this movie, I am now a huge fan of the Warren Zevon song “Keep me in your heart” which was perfect for this movie.

Funny People is a serious movie that is hilarious with off color humor, which fades in the last half hour, leaving a drama and for that, it misses being an excellent movie, becoming only a very good movie.

A solitary miner on the moon is coming close to the end of his three year shift. His sporadic video contact with his wife keeps his hopes up as he begins to feel the stress of the work.

A very sparse movie, few characters, less locations, zero explosions or aliens or laser guns. Moon is a very dark movie, not only for the realistic lighting and portrayal of conditions on the moon but in the way the plot reveals the important information about the movie.

Sam Rockwell plays Sam Bell, the lonely miner with his only real companion being a robot/computer voiced by Kevin Spacey. Since the majority of the movie features Sam Bell only, it is just as well that Sam Rockwell is a very talented actor who is watchable.

It was cool to see that rather than rely on computer graphics, the moon surface action was created with miniatures which always look a little better and more believable.

Moon is a simple movie with an interesting plot that gets you thinking after-wards. An intelligent science fiction movie which takes time to develop but is well worth the wait.