“Goodbye, old man.”

From Here Today.

After decades as a successful comedy writer, Charlie (Billy Crystal) is struggling to stay on top of his job and his strained connection with his children, Rex (Penn Badgley) and Francine (Laura Benanti), while keeping his dementia diagnosis secret.  However, after going to lunch with, Emma (Tiffany Haddish), the woman who won the lunch at a charity auction, his life is forever changed.  Emma is unfamiliar with Charlie’s work, but when Emma suffers an allergic reaction, Charlie accompanies her to the hospital.  After making sure that Emma is okay, Charlie heads home, not expecting to see her ever again, however when Emma shows up several days later to pay him back for the hospital bill, the two stumble into a friendship fueled by their opposites.  At work, Charlie spends his time writing sketches, advising his protégé-turned-producer (Max Gordon Moore), and helping a young writer, Darrell (Andrew Durand), but his real focus is completing the book about his late wife (Louisa Krause) before his memories of her are gone forever.  As a show of gratitude for helping him escape his writers block, Charlie invites Emma to be his guest at his granddaughter’s (Audrey Hsieh) bat mitzvah, which only heightens the strain on Charlie’s relationship with Francine.  When Charlie has an outburst at work that goes viral, he learns from his doctor (Anna Deavere Smith) that he has an even more aggressive form of dementia than was originally diagnosed and that he will be unable to live alone from now on.  Because Charlie is unwilling to dump the news on his kids yet, Emma volunteers to stay with him until he can find a way to tell Rex and Francine.  As time runs out for Charlie to finish his book and share his diagnosis with his children, both he and Emma realize that their unexpected friendship might be just the thing they both needed.

This comedy is full of hilarious one-liners and heartbreaking genuineness that will appeal to fans from a wide variety of backgrounds.  Crystal and Haddish are very different in their approach to comedy, which is evident in the characters they portray, but together, they create the perfect comedic balance.  Featuring both the highs of great comedy and the lows of dementia, Here Today takes viewers on an emotional journey that is not to be missed.

| Rated: PG-13 | Running Time: 117 minutes |Genre: comedy/drama|

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 6* of 10|Nudity: 1 of 10|Sexuality: 0 of 10|Gore: 1 of 10

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