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Charlie Berns, played by director and co-writer Billy Crystal , is a writer who is so well known for being funny that when his behavior is a little off, everyone thinks he is doing a bit. On stage with Barry Levinson , Sharon Stone , and Kevin Kline , all playing themselves as stars of a fictitious Berns-scripted movie classic celebrating an anniversary, Berns gets disoriented and forgets the names of the other people on the panel. The audience laughs appreciatively; what a cut-up! Stone good-naturedly reminds him: “I’m Meryl Streep .” Another laugh. That Charlie!

Charlie’s daughter Francine (Broadway star Laura Benanti ) is not amused. She thinks he must be drunk or that he does not care enough about her to respond to the invitation to her daughter’s bat mitzvah. And his colleagues at a “Saturday Night Live”-style late night sketch comedy show just think it’s a quirky eccentricity that he insists on a typewriter instead of a computer. 

But Charlie is in the early stages of dementia. He is lonely and he is scared. He holds onto what he can: his routine, as he walks to his job reciting, “Turn left at the stop sign,” and the one thing that he has always been able to count on—Charlie is funny. He may not come up with sketch ideas, but he can spot the weaknesses in other people’s ideas and make them better, and he also can spot the talent in a shy new writer who just needs a little bit of support. There is nothing funny about losing the core of himself, his memories, his ability to come up with fast, witty comebacks. And so, the only one who knows what is going on is his doctor ( Anna Deavere Smith , every bit the warm, dedicated health care professional we all wish for).

Lunch with Charlie was raffled off at a charity fundraiser, and Charlie is looking forward to spending time with someone who was interested enough to bid on him. But the person who shows up is Emma ( Tiffany Haddish ), who has no idea who he is. She’s only there to spite her ex, who was the one who bid just $22 to meet Charlie. And to order a gigantic seafood platter, which immediately triggers an allergic reaction requiring an emergency trip to the hospital. Charlie pays for everything and Emma promises to pay him back. But as they keep seeing each other, they find an easy connection. Having no preconception of who Charlie was allows Emma to see his struggle. And being with someone who knows the truth helps Charlie begin to accept it, and to resolve some issues with his family (how his son got the name “Rex” is a lot of fun) while he still can. 

Crystal largely avoids the pitfalls of a movie about friends of different races. Emma is not a  Magical Negro  and Charlie is not a  White Savior . They are not there to teach each other important life lessons or help each other overcome obstacles. They are just good people who get along well. The easy chemistry between the characters reflects the real-life friendship of the two stars and it is clear to see that like Emma and Charlie, Haddish and Crystal get a kick out of each other. Indeed, they get so much of a kick out of each other that Crystal the director was too reluctant to cut their scenes, which impairs the pacing. It would work better with a shorter running time, with some scenes as DVD extras. This is a particular problem in the parts of the movie where we are supposed to see how funny Charlie is. The material for the sketch comedy show in the film is not as funny as the movie needs them to be. 

Crystal wrote the script with former “Saturday Night Live” writer Alan Zweibel , who also co-wrote “ North ,” the film based on Zweibel’s book that led to Roger Ebert’s legendary review: “I hated hated hated hated hated this movie.” No one would say that about this film. I liked liked liked it, but that I wish they’d had someone like Charlie to sharpen the script.

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Nell Minow is the Contributing Editor at RogerEbert.com.

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Billy Crystal is always a welcome presence on screen. In his last film, 2019’s “Standing Up, Falling Down,” he played a quirky dermatologist helping a comedian get out of a rut. In “Here Today,” which Crystal wrote and directed (his first feature in 20 years), the tables are turned; he stars as a comedy writer who learns to love life again thanks to an unlikely friendship. A takeoff on the Alan Zweibel short story “The Prize,” Crystal writes himself a honey of a role that he performs with his signature charm and wit. But he seems to have forgotten to write any of the other roles with the same depth, which is a darn shame.

Forgetting is the central conceit of “Here Today.” Charlie (Crystal) is a legendary comedy writer grappling with his dementia diagnosis. Though his short-term memory is slipping, Charlie’s past tends to come rushing back in overwhelming flashbacks, and he initially tries to hide his struggle from his family and co-workers at a “Saturday Night Live”-like late-night sketch show. Unexpected salvation arrives in the form of a wacky subway singer, Emma ( Tiffany Haddish ), who waltzes into his life over lunch.

This meet-cute, the result of a charity auction, and a subsequent seafood-triggered allergic reaction, makes up the totality of the short story. From that strange encounter, Crystal and former “SNL” writer Zweibel (the pair also collaborated on the Broadway show “700 Sundays”) extrapolate the dementia, the odd-couple friendship that blossoms between Emma and Charlie and the comedy show, taking Zweibel’s nugget of story and running with it.

The comedy show, featuring some intentionally ghastly sketches, is the cleverest subplot, exploring the comedy generation gap. But it’s not well-integrated into the main story of Emma and Charlie’s friendship, and the film feels disjointed. Plus, Emma and Charlie’s friendship is so outlandishly fantastical, one may pause to wonder if Emma is a real person, or some kind of apparition who only appears to Charlie.

Emma is a dreaded combination of stereotypical character tropes. She’s a Manic Pixie Dream Girl by way of the Magical Negro , her character serving only to cheer up Charlie and spur him to work on his memoir. All we know about Emma’s life is that she sings in a band called Slippery When Wet, and she has an ex-boyfriend whom she’s dead-set on making jealous through her friendship with Charlie. Her personality is “outgoing” and “funny hats,” but we haven’t a clue as to her background, where she’s from, her hopes, her pain, what makes her so cheerful in the first place or why she even wants to be friends with Charlie. The same goes for every other character in Charlie’s orbit, and that is the film’s fatal flaw.

As a performer, Haddish normally brings a jolt of chaotic energy to liven the proceedings. But here, likely because the character is so underwritten, she feels tight, the fun forced. Emma’s function is merely to support Charlie and loosen up stuffy white people, and the lack of anything authentic for Haddish to riff on is palpable.

It’s hard to pick apart a film that is as well-intentioned as “Here Today,” which earnestly wants to celebrate life, and every beautiful, tragic, poignant and surprising moment. But for a film that seeks to be so humanist, there’s only one truly human character in it. As likable as he is, that oversight is impossible to ignore.

Katie Walsh is a Tribune News Service film critic.

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Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish star in Crystal's new directorial effort, a dramedy about the friendship between a man entering the early stages of dementia and an aspiring singer.

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Imagine The Father if Anthony Hopkins’ character was a joke-telling comedy machine spewing out one-liners. That’s the net effect of Billy Crystal ‘s new directorial effort (arriving 20 years after his last, 61* ), which he also co-wrote and stars in. Attempting to blend a poignant portrait of a man entering the early stages of dementia, a feel-good story about an unusual friendship and copious doses of comic shtick, Here Today doesn’t fully succeed in any department. But it does provide some alternately amusing and touching moments, thanks largely to the heartfelt performances by Crystal and his co-star Tiffany Haddish .

The comedy-drama, inspired by a semi-autobiographical short story written by Crystal’s frequent collaborator (and co-screenwriter) Alan Zweibel, revolves around a character tailor-made for the veteran star’s talents. He plays Charlie Burnz (even the name sounds vaudevillian), an aging comedy writer who serves as a sort of elder statesman on the writing staff of a Saturday Night Live -style sketch comedy show. Charlie’s condition is hinted at in the film’s opening moments, when he’s shown carefully using simple memorized instructions to venture from his home to his workplace.

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Taking the idea of “meet cute” to the extreme, the story kicks into gear when Charlie goes to lunch with the winner of a charity auction who, as he learns to his chagrin, paid a mere $22 for the privilege. It also turns out that his dining companion, Emma Payge (Haddish), an aspiring singer, didn’t even win the prize herself, but co-opted it out of spite after discovering her boyfriend cheating on her. The meal eventually turns disastrous when she suffers a severe allergy attack after eating a giant shellfish tower and Charlie has to take her to the hospital and winds up paying her medical bills.

The scene is apparently based on a true incident in Zweibel’s life, but the way it’s played here gives a quick indication that subtlety will not be the film’s forte. After the allergy attack kicks in, Emma doesn’t just swell up and have difficulty breathing. Instead, her face instantly becomes horribly distorted, and her comically garbled attempts at speaking sound like Bill Cosby performing his classic “Dentist” routine.

Crystal’s irresistible impulse to go for big laughs inevitably gives the film a schizophrenic quality from which it never recovers. The unlikely platonic friendship that develops between the pair (they do spoon at one point, but thankfully that’s as far as it goes) is depicted in such scenes as their visiting Madame Tussauds, providing the two stars the opportunity to pose with a variety of wax figures while exchanging one-liners as if competing in a joke-off. At another point, Charlie brings Emma as his date to his granddaughter’s bat-mitzvah. She quickly enlivens the stodgy affair with her sheer lifeforce, getting the elderly attendees to dance wildly as she performs a down-and-dirty rendition of Janis Joplin’s “Piece of My Heart.” (Emma’s repertoire is strangely retro, perhaps reflective of the fact that the character was created by two elderly men. At another point in the film, she sings Fats Waller’s “Your Feet’s Too Big.”)

Many of the dialogue’s gags are funny, especially as delivered by such pros as Crystal and Haddish. The former displays his decades-honed, pitch-perfect timing and inflections, especially as compared to a performer on the sketch comedy show who consistently places the wrong emphases on words, much to Charlie’s consternation. Charlie’s growing anger leads to one of the film’s more entertaining, if improbable, scenes, when he launches an impromptu on-air tirade against the offending cast member that delights the show’s studio audience and becomes a viral sensation.

At other times, you can feel the screenplay straining too hard for Neil Simonesque rat-a-tat jokes, as when Charlie, invited by Emma to dance, informs her, “I’m a very dangerous dancer. I’m one of the few people who have mambo insurance.” You can almost hear the silent rimshot.

Haddish, faced with the challenging task of going toe-to-toe with a comedy legend, wisely underplays, giving one of her more restrained performances that gets the desired laughs while effectively mining the serious moments as well.

The dramatic segments are even more forced, especially the POV flashbacks in which Charlie recalls his courtship and marriage with the beautiful Carrie (Louisa Krause), whose tragic untimely death continues to haunt him. While the stylistic choice eliminates the need for Crystal to be awkwardly de-aged or substituted with a younger actor, it also proves alienating.

Everything about the film, which runs a little under two hours but feels longer, registers as vaguely overstuffed, down to the needless celebrity cameos including Itzhak Perlman performing an impromptu violin solo on the balcony of his apartment, and Kevin Kline, Sharon Stone and director Barry Levinson playing themselves taking part in a panel discussion in which Charlie’s deteriorating mental state becomes painfully evident. The brief appearances smack more of Crystal’s well-stocked rolodex than dramatic necessity. Meanwhile, such supporting players as Penn Badgley, Laura Benanti and Anna Deveare Smith are unable to make very much of their underwritten roles.

Here Today certainly means well, delivering inspiring messages about living in the moment and savoring the meaningful relationships that make life worth living. It’s a hard film to dislike. But it’s also one that, much like Charlie’s fading memories, won’t linger very long either.

Production companies: Astute Films, Face Productions, Big Head Productions Distributor: Stage 6 Films Cast: Billy Crystal, Tiffany Haddish, Penn Badgley, Laura Benanti, Louisa Krause, Anna Deavere Smith, Nyambi Nyambi Director: Billy Crystal Screenwriters: Billy Crystal, Alan Zweibel Producers: Fred Bernstein, Billy Crystal, Dominique Telso, Alan Zweibel, Tiffany Haddish Executive producers: Rick Jackson, Claudine Marrotte, Samantha Sprecher Director of photography: Vanja Cernjul Production designer: Andrew Jackness Editor: Kent Beyda Costume designer: Cynthia Flynt Composer: Charlie Rosen Casting: Tara Rubin

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Memorable dementia comedy has sex jokes, strong language.

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Parents need to know that Here Today is a compassionate dramedy that was directed and co-written by Billy Crystal, who also stars as Charlie, a widower who's trying to keep his growing memory loss a secret. The movie's message about appreciating loved ones while they're with us is solid, but the lasting…

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Strong language includes "ass," "balls," "bulls--t," "damn," "goddammit," "s--t,

Several sexually suggestive jokes. Plot includes focus on Charlie's love for his

Smoking in one scene by supporting characters. Mention of the consequences of dr

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Value the time and relationship you have with someone today, since there's no as

Positive depiction of platonic love in the form of a friendship between two peop

Parents need to know that Here Today is a compassionate dramedy that was directed and co-written by Billy Crystal , who also stars as Charlie, a widower who's trying to keep his growing memory loss a secret. The movie's message about appreciating loved ones while they're with us is solid, but the lasting impression is of walking in the shoes of a terrified dementia patient who suddenly can't remember how to get to work or recognize family and friends. Events surround a granddaughter's bat mitzvah, and Jewish culture is a key element of the film. Charlie is a veteran comedy writer who mentors a young up-and-comer, offering real-world comedy writing tips. But some of his character's jokes feel problematic in today's world, including ones about the late Stephen Hawking and a tirade humiliating a co-worker that includes an audience chanting an insult at a performer. Co-star Tiffany Haddish 's character also makes quite a few sex jokes, and part of her rear end is seen when she gets a shot. Sex is implied in a flashback scene. Strong language includes "s--t" and "f--k," there's one scene that includes smoking, and characters touch on the consequences of drug use.

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Strong language includes "ass," "balls," "bulls--t," "damn," "goddammit," "s--t," and a couple uses of "f--k." Name-calling is used to humiliate.

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Several sexually suggestive jokes. Plot includes focus on Charlie's love for his late wife, with flashbacks to their romance, including waking up in bed together. Woman's rear end is partially exposed while she's getting a shot.

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Value the time and relationship you have with someone today, since there's no assurance they'll be there tomorrow. Encourages empathy.

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Positive depiction of platonic love in the form of a friendship between two people who are different in just about every way. Diversity within the cast. Emma is a positive, supportive influence in Charlie's life. Charlie is an excellent mentor and enjoys a great relationship with his granddaughter. Jewish culture and rituals are portrayed.

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Enjoyable to see Billy Crystal direct and star in this heartfelt passion project

What's the story.

In HERE TODAY, a winning celebrity auction bid brings together aging TV comedy writer Charlie ( Billy Crystal ) and young street singer Emma ( Tiffany Haddish ), whose lunch meeting turns into an evening at the hospital. As their friendship grows, Charlie's cognitive health starts to decline, and they find themselves in undefined territory when it comes to love, trust, and support.

Is It Any Good?

To create empathy for those dealing with dementia, Crystal cleverly creates a memorable comedy that allows viewers to walk in the shoes of someone whose moments of memory loss are increasing. Thankfully, the movie's humor doesn't center on Charlie's impairments; instead, the funny comes from all of the other moments. Having Charlie write for a sketch comedy show creates a scenario that lets viewers laugh with ease, and casting Haddish always ensures crack-up scenes. The balance between comedy, heart, and head is excellent. It's the hand that's too heavy.

Crystal has so much to say and apparently not enough films in which to say it, so he and co-writer Alan Zweibel cram a little too much in to Here Today . Emma and Charlie's relationship is beautiful, exploring the idea that even for a man who's known to date younger women, sometimes love takes the form of platonic companionship. But it's never clear exactly why vibrant Emma prioritizes her friendship with Charlie over every other thing in her life. Haddish also feels a bit shoehorned into the role: Whenever she's allowed to fly, it's great fun, but most of the time she's restrained, as if the role was initially intended for someone else. Then there's the stiff relationship between Charlie and his children, his granddaughter's bat mitzvah, and Charlie's constant memories of his late wife, floating in and out of the scenes. And in between Charlie's complicated life, there's work -- including the young writer (Andrew Durand) he's mentoring. While it all comes together, sometimes the effect is mawkish, melodramatic, and a little much.

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Families can talk about how dementia is portrayed in Here Today . How does Charlie's condition affect him and his family?

Why do you think movies centered on platonic love are rare? Is it important to show that men and women can have deep, non-romantic relationships?

The outrageous origin of Charlie and Emma's meeting is actually based on a true story, including the $22 winning bid and the allergic-reaction hospital visit. What does this tell us about how we can view life's challenges?

Charlie mentors a new writer and, in doing so, explains to viewers how to write comedy. Similarly, in Crystal's movie Throw Momma from the Train , his character is a writing teacher who gives actual tips on how to write murder mysteries. How does this device help viewers be more informed about the production they're watching?

How does this movie encourage empathy ? Why is that an important character strength ?

Movie Details

• In theaters : May 7, 2021
• On DVD or streaming : August 3, 2021
• Cast : Billy Crystal , Tiffany Haddish , Penn Badgley
• Director : Billy Crystal
• Inclusion Information : Female actors, Black actors
• Studio : Stage 6 Films
• Genre : Comedy
• Topics : Brothers and Sisters , Friendship
• Character Strengths : Empathy
• Run time : 117 minutes
• MPAA rating : PG-13
• MPAA explanation : strong language and sexual references
• Last updated : June 2, 2023

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