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That's the thesis of the new film You Hurt My Feelings.

It's about what happens when a writer learns that

someone she loves doesn't like her work. The film stars Julia Louis Dreyfus as

an author who's struggling to sell her novel and feeling increasingly insecure about it.

Then she and her sister overhear her husband talking about the fact that he doesn't like it,

which rattles her so hard that it threatens her marriage.

I'm Aisha Harris. And I I'm Linda Holmes and today we're talking about you hurt my

feelings on pop culture happy hour from NPR. It's just me and Aisha today. You hurt my feelings is the latest film from the

writer and director Nicole Hall of Center. She worked with Julia Louis Dreyfus before on the 2013 film,

Enough Said. They collaborate again here where Louis Dreyfus plays Beth. She's a writing professor whose memoir saw at least some success and

who's now working to sell her novel. Her agent seems ambivalent and unconvinced and

she turns repeatedly to her husband Don,

played by Tobias Menzies, for reassurance.

And he provides it right up until the moment

when she overhears him telling a friend

that he doesn't like the novel at all. This puts a profound strain on her marriage and it

dovetails with her efforts to support her son Elliot, played by Owen Teague, who himself is a playwright trying to finish his first play. The supporting

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