A grieving Southern widower (John Carroll Lynch) is pulled out of the depths of depression by an unconventional new friendship in “Anything,” a Los Angeles-set indie featuring the versatile Matt Bomer as Freda, a flamboyant, jaded sex worker.

Transplanted to California by his sister (Maura Tierney) after a suicide attempt, Lynch’s stolid Early becomes a beloved mascot of sorts in his melancholy Hollywood apartment complex, which includes his across-the-hall neighbor Freda alongside a handful of other, somewhat predictable types: heroin-addict musicians, a never-seen drunk who sings mournfully to himself.

Though both Tierney and Bomer’s characters also veer into stereotype — her uptight disapproval, his sassiness — writer-director Timothy McNeil still crafts a fairly moving tribute to the notion, as Lin-Manuel Miranda once put it, that “love is love is love.”