Anything Helps
2025 · 10m · USA
Directed by Max DeFalco
Genres: comedy, dark comedy
Tones: darkly comic, humorous
An unemployed, injured deadbeat dad fakes a cancer diagnosis to crowdfund a ceiling repair after his upstairs neighbor wrecks the apartment. Doug's grift is pathetic in exactly the way grifts actually are.
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Faking cancer for drywall money is the most honest plot of 2025 — nobody in this movie is going to learn anything, and that's the point. Refreshingly uninterested in redeeming its bum.
Max DeFalco plays GoFundMe-era moral rot as low-key sitcom — Eastbound & Down's mean register, Doug's grift pathetic in the way grifts actually are. Honest and unflashy.
GoFundMe-era moral rot played as low-key sitcom rather than indignant op-ed — Max DeFalco's pathetic-grift register and the busted-ceiling specificity sound right.
Reviews
Exuding a persona that's extremely pathetic but surprisingly charming, Adam Rosenblatt shines in this role as a deadbeat once again.