Review: Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish in Brooklyn Heights-centered ‘Here Today’
A sleepy stab at something earnestly “feel-good,” “Here Today” is a pairing of Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish that juggles dementia, grief and family squabbles.
“Here Today,” which opens in theaters Friday, is genial and gentle enough to make it mildly restive. It is, in scenes around leafy Brooklyn Heights, at least leisurely.
The film, written by Alan Zweibel and Crystal and based on a short story by Zweibel, is Crystal’s first time directing in 20 years — since the Roger Maris HBO film “61(asterisk).” That, a Yankees’ story, was more in Crystal’s wheelhouse. The tones here, though, are more ambitious and out of reach for the Here Today.”