2014 · comedy · drama
This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
Directed by Shawn Levy1h 43m2014
When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. As the brothers and sisters re-examine their shared history and the status of each tattered relationship among those who know and love them best, they reconnect in hysterically funny and emotionally significant ways.
Our read: This Is Where I Leave You (2014) (2014) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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