Wonderful World (2009)

Former children’s musician Matthew Broderick finds himself more and more isolated other than attempts at bonding with his young daughter chess matches with his sickly, philosophical roommate Michael Kenneth Williams. When Williams falls into a diabetic coma, his sister Sanaa Lathan arrives from Senegal and Matthew finally finds a new connection to life. A slight cliché of a movie which probably doesn’t do enough for its Black characters, its strengths lie directly in the hands of its central cast. Perhaps it’s just the nostalgic Ferris Bueller connection, but I find Broderick generally likable even in his most unlikable characters.