The Humbling is a 2014 comedy-drama film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Buck Henry and Michal Zebede, based on the 2009 novel by Philip Roth.

The film stars Al Pacino, Greta Gerwig, Dianne Wiest, Nina Arianda, Dylan Baker, Charles Grodin, Dan Hedaya, Billy Porter, Kyra Sedgwick and Mary Louise Wilson.

He is institutionalized after an incident during a Broadway play, then returns home, where he contemplates suicide in Hemingway style.

[3] Although the film had ample funding in the beginning, the listed conditions became too much for Levinson, who rejected them and lost, by his estimate, "somewhere in the area of $6 million".

The site's critical consensus reads: "The Humbling is an inarguable highlight of Al Pacino's late-period filmography, but that's an admittedly low bar that it doesn't always clear by a very wide margin.