This Is Where I Leave You

Cast: Jason Bateman, Tina Fey,Adam Driver(Phillip), Corey Stoll(Paul),Jane Fonda(Judd's Mother), Rose Byrne(Penny),Kathryn Hahn(Annie),Abigail Spencer(Quinn), Connie Britton(Phillip's Girl), Timothy Olyphant(Horry), Dax Shepard(Judd's Boss), Ben Schwartz(Boner) and Cade Lappin(The only Kid)
Director: Shawn Levy
Genre: Comedy, Drama


A happy, fun and adult family drama :) Perfect Sunday watch :)



You may look forward to:

• A relaxed light enjoyable watch with your spouse or with your friends. If you are tensed, you will be rejuvenated:)
• The movie completely justifies its genre of Drama as well as Comedy :) That's all you've got in here. Plenty adult jokes and complications with relationships, multiple contradictory characters under one roof, fights and snuggles, laughter's and cries, realizations and frustrations, all sort of human emotions depicted on lighter notes. And yes life still moves on :)
• Crazy lot of characters to credit, however the main lead being Jason Bateman, every other role seem revolving around him. He is one character who learns to appreciate a complicated life over a planned single track steady life :) His journey through the realization in 7 days is subtle and good :)
• Tina Fey,Adam Driver and Corey Stoll,playing the siblings of the lead, all of them equally distributed roles balanced out with another significant role played by Jane Fonda, the perfect Mother :) Loved Fonda's character absolutely :)
• Rose Byrne, Kathryn Hahn, Abigail Spencer and Connie Britton, are the supporting cast of the movie, mostly the reason of all the complications in an otherwise perfect family :D
• Timothy Olyphant, Dax Shepard and Ben Schwartz, playing the second level of supporting star cast, shorter screen presence but each one of them leaves a different impression of his own :)
• And a must mention of our cutest character: Cade Lappin :D Well, he reminds you how important it is to clear your bowels, on all the 7 days :P

The dampeners you should be aware of:

Too short a duration of a movie involving these many characters, character sketches are kept concise, not delving too deep. But the director does a good job, not letting that be any minus of the movie




My Rating: 3/5