Directed By: Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum, Real Steel) Starring: Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, Corey Stoll, Adam Driver
Rating: R for language, sexual content and some drug use
Run Time: 1 hour, 43 minutes
Synopsis: Already dealing with the discovery that his wife is cheating on him with his boss, Judd Altman (Bateman) returns home for his father's funeral and to sit shiva with his famous author mother (Fonda) and his squabbling siblings (Fey, Stoll, Driver) per his father's last request. Traditional Hollywood family drama ensues.
REVIEW
Andrew: Hello dear readers! We were a little quiet the last week or so because my mother visited us last weekend and we were unable to catch any new releases, but we're back this week after having seen This Is Where I Leave You this past Friday night.
This Is Where I Leave You is a film we've been waiting to see for a while now because of
the star-studded cast full of actors and actresses we very much enjoy. The film
stars Jason Bateman (Bad Words) as Judd Altman, a radio producer who gets hit with the
double-whammy of discovering his wife had been cheating on him with his boss,
followed by the death of his father. His father's passing brings the whole
Altman clan together, where we meet Judd's sister Wendy, played by Tina Fey (NBC's 30 Rock); his younger
brother Philip, played by Adam Driver (HBO's Girls); his older brother Paul, played by Corey Stoll (Netflix's House of Cards); and his mother Hillary, played by Jane Fonda (HBO's The Newsroom), who's famous for writing a parenting book that explicitly detailed her
children's lives.
And that's just the immediate family.
Philip's older girlfriend is played by the great Connie Britton (ABC's Nashville); Paul's wife, Annie, is played by the hilarious Cathryn Hahn (Bad Words); and a neighbor/former
flame of Wendy's that she still holds a torch for is played by Timothy
Olyphant (FX's Justified). So this is a pretty great cast on paper.
Sarah, now that we've actually seen This Is Where I
Leave You, do you think the movie lived up to the promise the cast
gave? Or were these actors wasted?
