The Film ANOMALISA is an Animated Anomaly

ANOMALISA deviates from what's expected and that's exactly what makes this an exceptional film.  Directed by Charlie Kaufman (ADAPTATION) & Duke Johnson (MARRYING GOD) have made an animated movie for adults about the mundane & insane life of adults.  From beginning to end, you're held captive by this feature film which is unlike other films even when the story fails to gain loft.  High praise goes to the creative animators for their artistry which creates a bewitching facade for a mundane tale of a philandering middle-age man.  Charlie Stone is the central character in a cast of cartoonish faces that are creepy in their similarity and alarming in their identical sounding voices (Jennifer Jason Leigh.)  Stone possesses the only unique voice with a British accent.  He is an author of motivational employee books that drive every business' performance up 90%.  Charlie is on a speaking tour in Cincinatti; sin city.  He appears as a benign, weary traveler.  Looks are deceiving and the stylish look of this movie is devilishy disturbing.  The movie becomes more bizarre as Charlie hits on women in the hotel bar.  The film creates a pervasive feeling of being in purgatory tettering on the border of Hell.  ANOMALISA is Dante's Inferno unleashed.  I would tell you to see this.  It open a Pandora's Box of  discussion.