Greenberg gets a movie

My mother always told me I’d make something of myself. I hope she won’t be too disappointed to learn that the new film starring Ben Stiller, “Greenberg,” isn’t actually about me. From SlashFilm:

Meet Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller): a dysfunctional 40-year-old at a crossroads in his life.  Roger wants to “do nothing” for a while, so he agrees to housesit for his younger and more successful brother, giving him a free place to stay in L.A.  While in town, he tries to reconnect with his old friends and band mates but times have changed, and old friends aren’t necessarily still best friends.  Greenberg starts spending time with his brother’s personal assistant Florence (Great Gerwig), an aspiring singer and herself something of a lost soul too.  During a series of embarrassingly awkward romantic encounters, we sense that perhaps even someone as irascible as Greenberg may have found somebody who is prepared to appreciate him for himself – if he would only stop critiquing Florence’s techniques in bed.  Over the course of several weeks, we watch an uncertain and wonderfully vulnerable courtship play out, and learn how funny, and terribly unpredictable, love in the modern world can be.

There is a clip in the trailer, which is after the jump, that I’ve definitely seen myself do when crosses busy streets in LA: