The Lonely Guy (1984)
Directed by Arthur Hiller
A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.
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In the 1984 film The Lonely Guy, Steve Martin wrote greeting cards; in 500 Days of Summer, Joseph Gordon-Levitt wrote greeting cards as well.
(The gag is an updating of one from Arthur Hiller’s “The Lonely Guy,” where it was fresh and better used.)
The overall feeling is that of a movie entirely overrun by third- and fourth-billed sidekicks (Jonah Hill and Paul Rudd are the special guest-stars, for crying out loud), where even Hawaii looks drab and the premise is stolen from Steve Martin in The Lonely Guy only to be buried under a wave of botched improv bits.
Occasionally, the movie rises to the level of, say, The Lonely Guy, thanks largely to Carell, who displays some of the mix of silliness and gravity of the early Steve Martin -- only without the smarm, never keeping a hipster's distance from the character.