Cheese!

In the TV show “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” Jeff Garlin doesn't really register. That's understandable, since it's Larry David's show. But “I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With” is about James, played by Garlin.


A lonely Chicago actor, James is something of a sad case. He's 39 and shares an apartment with his mother. His favorite film is “Marty,” that downer with Ernest Borgnine as a grown man whose roommate is his mother. It's unclear whether James has modeled his life on the movie, but it's clear no casting agent in town thinks he's right for a planned remake.
Garlin lays on the pitiful details fast and thick. But they're not heavy. The movie is remarkably light. James may not like his life, but mercifully he doesn't hate himself. And there's always a woman interested – two, actually. One is a dark 'n' bouncy weirdo, who, as you could expect, is played by Sarah Silverman. The other is her opposite number, a blond, rambling schoolteacher played by Bonnie Hunt. They're both characteristically funny: Hunt is mock-serious but womanly; Silverman is adolescent and possibly evil.

If the comedy on “Curb” is situational, springing from David's antagonistic sense of propriety, the comedy in Garlin's movie blooms from real, less-abrasive emotions.
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