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‘Here Today’ review: Nobody asked for a Billy Crystal dementia comedy

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Billy Crystal plays Charlie Berns, a renowned writer of TV, films and Broadway plays whose heyday was in the 1970s and ’80s.

Now, he’s a respected old fogey with a gig writing for a cable sketch show called “This Just In.” It airs on the “Funny Channel” — a misnomer if there ever was one.No wonder the overlong movie directed by Crystal doesn’t get laughs, because “Here Today” is also a dementia drama.

Charlie has kept his worsening condition a secret from his colleagues and two adult children (Laura Benanti and Penn Badgley), even as he struggles to remember their names.

Had enough? Too bad. The film then warps into a modern “Tell-Tale Heart,” as a traumatic memory from decades earlier haunts Charlie, and he can’t shake the guilt.

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