Lost & Found In Cleveland

Lost & Found In Cleveland is a 5 car pileup of lame comedy, failed drama and misguided social commentary. The film follows various folks in the ohio city converging on a forthcoming taping of an Antiques Roadshow style appraisal tv series at christmas (because…i don’t know reasons?) and what follows is essentially one decent subplot involving a grieving Mailman (Dennis Haysbert, one of many talented actors wasted on this limp Love Actually wannabe), about 3 merely bad ones and one subplot involving an overly anxious professor and his recent inheritance of a bunch of racist figurines from his grandmother that results in the kind of attempt at social commentary and flopsweat humor that would barely pass muster on a z-grade tyler perry sitcom, the kind of plot that invented the term “oh brother”. This is essentially a lame though i guess well intentioned “comedy” that has a perfect ratio of lame jokes and shameless Sherwin Williams product placement. There is one genuinely great laugh provided by June Squibb (i hope she got paid a ton) otherwise Lost & Found In Cleveland would be better off staying lost. 

I Give It 1 1/2 Stars!!!