‘See You When I See You’ Review: Cooper Raiff Deals With His Sister’s Death in a Too-Familiar Traumedy From Director Jay Duplass

In 2017, “The Big Sick” was the big sale of the Sundance Film Festival (beaten one week later by “Mudbound”). Those were the days, when streamers were spending big to acquire quality independent movies. The bottom has since fallen out of that market. Now we get cautious nibbles in place of all-night bidding wars. Sadly, audiences aren’t showing up for such movies like they once did, which means that a film like “See You When I See You” — an earnest, emotional indie from director Jay Duplass and the team behind “The Big Sick” — might be more aptly called “Will Anyone Ever See You?”

Neither is quite as snappy as screenwriter Adam Cayton-Holland’s original title, “Tragedy Plus Time,” a reference to the Steve Allen/Carol Burnett/Woody Allen-attributed equation for comedy, but also a pithy way to describe Cayton-Holland’s “memoir of loss and the funniest person I ever…