John Hindman's The Answer Man is a film of small pleasures that mostly outweigh its larger problems. In its broad strokes (and particularly in its closing passages) it wants badly to be about Big Themes,
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Jeff Daniels stars as Arlen Faber, author a book called Me and God that, in the words of one character,
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The wealthy but disconnected curmudgeon attempting to cultivate a relationship with the sunny, charming single mom is a serviceable enough construct (hell, it worked for As Good As It Gets),
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The Answer Man sports a solid cast full of talented people,
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But the leads more than pull their weight. Daniels proves, as he did in The Squid and the Whale, that there are few actors who can do churlish,
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