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People person

The heroine of Ira and Abby is insanely empathetic

Ira and Abby is such a blatant crowd-pleaser, so determined to entertain us, that I wanted to kick myself for not liking it more. Why wasn't I pleased? Well, it's got too many influences, for one thing, and they're all worn on its sleeve. There's a Woody Allen thing in there, a Friends thing, a Seinfeld thing, a Dharma and Greg thing. I even thought I detected a George Kaufman thing - the wacky family from You Can't Take It With You. That's a lot of comic pedigree, but Ira and Abby never quite settles on a tone of its own. It feels derivative, secondhand.

And yet it has its moments, as when Abby (Jennifer Westfeldt), the ...

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