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This Is Where I Leave You
- Director: Shawn Levy
- Writer: Jonathan Tropper
- Producer: Jesse Ehrman; Shawn Levy
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A wealthy, dysfunctional faux Jewish family...gather for the faux shiva of their recently deceased father.
Wealthy dysfunction - without exception - usually veers into spoiled brat territory - this is no exception.
And, there's nothing worse than a group of adult brats...not one likeable character.
The script tries and fails [miserably] to inject humour into the brats' shenanigans...and the 'revelatory' ending is a cheap, contrived gimmick that does nothing to improve the lame preceedings.
Avoid.
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The(ir) Blurb...
When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. Confronting their history and the frayed states of their relationships among the people who know and love them best, they ultimately reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting ways amid the chaos, humor, heartache and redemption that only families can provide-driving us insane even as they remind us of our truest, and often best, selves.
Cast & Characters
Jason Bateman as Judd Altman;
Tina Fey as Wendy Altman;
Jane Fonda as Hillary Altman;
Adam Driver as Phillip Altman;
Rose Byrne as Penny Moore;
Corey Stoll as Paul Altman;
Kathryn Hahn as Annie Altman;
Connie Britton as Tracy Sullivan;
Timothy Olyphant as Horry Callen;
Dax Shepard as Wade Beaufort