You Hurt My Feelings

You Hurt My Feelings

A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.

  • Released: 2023-05-26
  • Runtime: 93 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy, Drama
  • Stars: Arian Moayed, Jeannie Berlin, Michaela Watkins, Owen Teague, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tobias Menzies, Amber Tamblyn, David Cross, Zach Cherry, Sarah Steele, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Rebecca Henderson, Deniz Akdeniz, Sunita Mani, Julian Leong, Sue Jean Kim, Clara Wong
  • Director: Nicole Holofcener
 Comments
  • chiltonsjillfreeport - 25 February 2024
    No, You Ticked Me Off
    I just have one question: How many people in their personal and professional lives could have/should have told Nicole Holofcenter and Julia Louis-Dreyfus that the script for You Hurt My Feelings was very, very slight at best (at worst, annoying) and really needed a lot more work if they meant to make a compelling film?

    The alternative is, neither had any better ideas (or offers, JLD) so they chose to coast on their laurels and under-deliver with an exceedingly forgettable film full of throwaway scenes and faint characters.

    This film was so poorly executed even scenes that *should have* played funny just fell flat.

    The best joke? Elliot is wearing a v-neck tee shirt (no cleavage) in his last scene.

    Maybe Nicole and Julia should start seeing other people.
  • djrmc24 - 3 February 2024
    A solid drama comedy
    You Hurt My Feelings is a film by Nicole Holofcener who teams back up Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The film is a very solid drama and comedy that is about novelist's long-standing marriage suddenly turns upside down when she overhears her husband give his honest reaction to her latest book. Tobias Menzies and Julia Louis-Dreyfus have really good chemistry here and one could even argue that they are so convincing in the film that you might actually think they are married in real life. Now this is not your typical drama comedy as this focuses more on the drama human element rather than the scenes for laughs. Overall I enjoy the film and the performances. You Hurt My Feelings gets a solid 7 stars out of 10 from me.
  • Kitahito - 18 November 2023
    Lukewarm nothing.
    If it gives you intellectual pleasure to see first-world, entitled upper-middle-class ordinary people lamenting about the boring, marginal conflicts of their lives, from which nothing emerges, then that film is for you. It's like getting Woody Allen's art without Woody Allen's art. No energy, no excitement, just a struggle against the constant urge to fall asleep or turn the film off and watch something more interesting instead. Elegant, sophisticated, subtle, nuanced - these are the words that might be used to describe You Hurt My Feelings by those who tend to confuse lack of content with content. Make no mistake, I could bear to watch snippets of humourless people's inconsequential lives, if at the end all the incoherent puzzle pieces came together into something worthwhile in a meta sense. I don't expect catharsis, I gave up on that in the first half hour. But it should evoke ANY emotion. Well, it didn't...