MOVIE - This Is Where I Leave You

R (1:43)

Wide release 9/19/14

Wed. 10/15/14 at ElCon

RT Critic: 43   Audience:   67

Cag:  4 - Liked it a lot, although the sad parts almost overwhelmed me, and they would probably be considered not-very-sad.... just poignant.  VERY funny in many places. 

Directed by Shawn Levy

Warner Brothers Pictures

Based on the book by Jonathan Tropper

Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Timothy Olyphant, Adam Driver, Jane Fonda

My comments:  Funny.  Sad.  Touching.  And then a little more of the funny......  This is a look at a family, at relationships, and at the choices we make in life  What is important?  What is happiness?  Four siblings come together at the funeral of their father.  The protagonist is Judd (Jason Bateman) who has left his wife after finding her cheating with his boss/friend.  He hasn't told his family.  His sister, Wendy (Tina Fey) is in a seemingly loveless marriage with a guy who's always on the phone wheeling-dealing and still in love with her brain-damaged ex-boyfriend, Horry (Timothy Olyphant) who lives across the street from her parents.  The eldest, Paul (Corey Stoff) is married to Judd's ex-girlfriend and they are frantically trying, hopeliessly, to get pregnant.  And then there's the baby brother, Philip (Adam Driver), who is incredibly immature and will say and do anything, no matter how embarrassing to his family.  Last but not least is Mom (Jane Fonda), whose part is small but perpetually hysterical.