Yes, it’s funny as hell, and it shows Will Ferrell as you’ve never seen him before. But in telling Harper Steele’s story, Greenbaum made an impact that will long outlast his film’s likely Oscar-competing run.
For all the marvels of modern pharmaceuticals, studies suggest treatment sometimes works simply because we believe it does. Now there are calls for the weirdness of the placebo effect to be put to better use
