Are You Here
Steve Dallas, a successful good-looking weather reporter decides to drive his childhood friend - Ben Baker home after Ben is informed that his father passed away. Ben inherits most of the property while his sister Terry and step-mother Angela are given nothing. Ben decides to start a non-profit collective which leads him to a new purpose of life and changes the attitude of other people towards him.
20 December 1963, St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA
8 May 1966, Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
18 June 1976, Columbus, Ohio, USA
20 December 1968, Burlington, North Carolina, USA
May 29, 2016
We don't know what 'Are You Here' means, but we do know Owen Wilson is Steve Dallas, a weatherman. Or maybe a weatherman-ish boy. Or weatherboy-ish man. He needs to grow up.
January 11, 2015
Wilson and Galifianakis are very much playing to type as slick charmer and manic weirdo, but the movie around them is much less predictable, veering off in strange directions and never finding a consistent tone.
August 22, 2014
Everything about Are You Here feels like a bottom-drawer script idea that was put together too casually and carelessly.
September 05, 2014
The film struggles to find a consistent tone between its attempts at broad stoner comedy, fractured family quirks and a more serious examination of mental illness.
August 22, 2014
"Are You Here" doesn't feel all there.
August 22, 2014
A comedy with no laughs. A drama disconnected from any known reality.
August 22, 2014
"Are You Here" proves a gently immersive, ingratiating, often witty character comedy with a pair of comfortably effective lead performances.
August 22, 2014
Are You Here lacks more than just the question mark that should go on its title. It lacks a point-of-view that makes sense, that feels central.
February 16, 2015
Having penned various episodes for both Mad Men and The Sopranos, what Weiner manages to squeeze into an entire season he's attempted to fit into almost two hours of cinema with this particular endeavour.
August 28, 2014
In the end, Are You Here isn't quite funny enough to be a comedy, nor does it take itself seriously enough to be a drama. I would say that it's a dramedy, but the tone is so erratic that it doesn't really fit in that category either.
August 22, 2014
It's funny, clunky, earnest, and barely credible, but it's all of a piece.
September 15, 2014
The movie is the cinematic equivalent of dead air.
