Matthew Perry, Lynn Collins, Ben Ayres

Screenwriter Hudson Milbank suffers from acute depersonalization disorder: he is so alienated from his own life that he makes the chronically depressed look perky. Hudson lives alone, watches The Golf...( read more  read more... ) Channel all day, can't hang on to a relationship, shoplifts in order to get his adrenalin up off the floor, fears that thinking about his dad's death will bring it to pass, loathes his mother, and in general, is as nutty as a peanut farm. Obsessed with the underlying sadness that infuses his wretched existence, Hudson is a man in hell, but he thinks that his long catalog of dismally unsatisfying and mutually self-destructive relationships is over when Sarah stumbles into his life. He knows she can save him. She knows he has to save himself. Together they just may save each other.

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R, 1 hr. 33 min.

Directed by: Harris Goldberg

Release Date: January 1, 2007

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DVD Release Date: May 13, 2008

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  • August 16, 2009
    Weird, but very sweet and funny.
  • June 5, 2009
    Does depersonalization disorder really exist? Hudson (Matthew Perry) is so depressed that psychoanalysis, drugs or even a girlfriend doesn't help. I have no idea if there is any realism to this disorder, but it is quite original as a movie.
  • January 27, 2009
    Numb is the story of Hudson Milbank (Matthew Perry). Hudson is a screenwriter that smokes way too much marijuana and wakes up in a permanently numb state. He suffers from depression and a serve depersonalization disorder, where he doesn't seem to care about anything. He becomes a...( read more) kleptomaniac, to get a little bit of excitement out of life.
    He spends the movie trying to face his demons and cure his problem. Life, family, fear of death, becoming who he wants to be, and love.
    I really enjoyed this film. I thought that Matthew Perry did a very good job in this role. I really enjoyed Lynn Collins as Sara, she is very endearing and cute. Kevin Pollack is always enjoyable, I just wish his role would have been bigger. I think that Mary Steenburgen is a great actress. I thought she was very refreshing in this.
    Numb is a very good film that makes us examine what's most important in our lives. I would recommend watching this one.
  • September 5, 2008
    Gee I'd hate to meet the writer of this autobiographical movie.
  • August 2, 2008
    This movie feels a little too familiar, so I took it to heart. Matthew Perry is an apocalypse.
  • August 21, 2009
    a watchable non comedy movie with matthew perry i wouldnt have thought it but he is pretty good in this role. worth the watch on cable or something like that for sure.
  • July 27, 2009
    Me likey ;). It's very different from any other movie, but that's what makes it enjoyable.
  • July 13, 2009
    Like watching paint dry. Only with knives stabbed into your eyes and chest, and acid poured in the resulting wounds. Slowly. Or like watching a very haggard, chunky, and miserable Matthew Perry sleepwalk through a film and gain large puffy bags under his eyes as the movie goes al...( read more)ong. Bleahhhhh!
  • July 6, 2009
    Not to bad of a movie a little slow
  • July 4, 2009
    Ridiculously boring. Zoom-in on Matthew Perry( who tries to juggle his way so it makes sense) all you want but it couldn't be any slower. painful to watch. It just sucks.

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