The film stars Elizabeth Mitchell, Dane Cook, Julie Benz, and Barbara Hershey as part of an ensemble cast.

Answers to Nothing garnered negative reviews from critics for lazily cribbing the template of interconnective stories and characters from similar films.

She initially suspects the young girl's neighbor, Beckworth, of taking her, but when porn is found on the father's computer, he becomes the main person of interest.

The media coverage attracts the interest of Carter, a lonely school teacher who spends his free time playing EverQuest II.

As the days drag on, with the girl still missing, Carter finds himself unable to stay immersed in his game, and he eventually confronts his neighbor Jerry, who everyone knows from around the neighborhood where he walks the beat in a policeman's uniform.

"[11] Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times said that despite a decent cast, he critiqued that "it can never fully surmount an overlong, largely underwhelming script that often swaps forced personality quirks and symbolic gestures for honest dimension.

"[12] Dennis Harvey from Variety found the film to be "well crafted and watchable but lacks the distinctive story content, style and standout performances to become more than a serviceable reboot of familiar ideas.

"[13] Newsday writer Rafer Guzman wrote about the movie overall, "[T]he performances are passable, but Leutwyler (who directed, co-wrote and edited) mixes his scenes with astounding tone-deafness, veering from fertility-clinic comedy to bloody violence to youthful romance.

He found Dane Cook "miscast and unconvincing" in his role, criticizing him for his use of "a dour expression and permanent frown" for his performance but said his appearance is the only thing in the movie that sets it apart from the numerous "everything-is-connected knock-offs" found in film festivals, saying "[I]t doesn't build to a climax so much as it winds down with a halfhearted shrug and a few feeble false shots of hope.

)"[15] R. Kurt Osenlund of Slant Magazine heavily lambasted Leutwyler for his "amateurish delusions" of having idiosyncratic characters and misguided philosophising being taken as having depth, only for it to be "tasteless and out of touch right down to its foundation," calling the film "a shoddy urban pastiche jam-packed with the same sophomoric, faux profundity of that irksome, half-ambiguous title.

"[16] Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times felt the film's overall plot connecting the vignettes came out of a "cheesy police thriller" but said that it proved satisfactory enough to warrant "some fine performances and an embrace of understatement."

"[17] Joseph Airdo of AXS praised the ensemble cast for giving "powerfully nuanced" performances, highlighting Cook's contribution for "melting away any preconceived notions one might have about his dramatic abilities" and Leutwyler for his handling of the film's multiple storylines, calling it "a spectacular – if sobering – cinematic effort.