Simon Helberg wears an unidentified watch

Helberg wrote this, co-directed it with his wife Jocelyn Towne, and starred. The tagline says "Based on a true story... unfortunately," which tells you what kind of movie this is. Quinn gets a harmless eye diagnosis, spirals into existential doubt, botches proposing to his girlfriend Devon (Melanie Lynskey), accidentally breaks up with her instead, and chases her to Paris. Zachary Quinto plays the best friend. Alfred Molina plays the father figure. Maggie Grace plays the coworker whose crush sets everything off. Eighty-nine minutes and a 4.8 on TMDB. The cast is better than the material.

The Casio MQ24-7B2 might be the cheapest analog watch you can buy new. White dial, black resin strap, three hands, no date, no complications of any kind. It retails for about twelve dollars. Quinn wearing this says something immediate: he is not a man who thinks about what's on his wrist. He probably grabbed it off a rack at a drugstore because his phone died and he needed the time. That fits the character perfectly, someone who stumbles into decisions rather than making them.

There's an irony in putting a twelve-dollar Casio on a character played by the same man who wrote the script. Helberg chose this watch on purpose. In a film about a guy who cannot commit to the big decisions, the MQ24 is the watch equivalent of a shrug. It tells the time and makes no other promises.