Dummy

Released 2003
Stars Adrien Brody, Milla Jovovich, Illeana Douglas, Vera Farmiga, Jared Harris, Ron Leibman, Jessica Walter
Directed by Gregor Jordan

Steven (Adrien Brody), a socially inept young man who struggles to express his feelings, learns to communicate with the world through his dummy and the art of ventriloquism. Former supermodel Milla Jovovich (cast against type in this film) plays Steven's best friend, an aspiring Yiddish folk singer who's the very definition of nerd.  

Summary by www.netflix.com

This is a quirky little comedy that has some small laughs and big smiles. It tries too hard to be offbeat, but it's funny. It would have been a better movie if Lorena (Vera Farmiga) had been a fringe character like the others. She seemed a little wounded, but she was too normal to believe she'd have the slightest attraction to Steven (Adrien Brody) and his dummy. I can overlook that in a comedy as long as it's funny, and this movie's just funny to enough to overlook its shortcomings. --Bill Alward, March 13, 2004