Like a frumpy version of "Knocked Up" playing out in a sadder, mystifying world, "Barry Munday" offers two icky humans and hopes that, by the tale's end, we'll be happy they're procreating. It comes closer to achieving that than we might expect, but the film's focus on some pretty unappealing quirks limits its mercantile appeal.
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