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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 (Jane Fonda) 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.

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This Is Where I Leave You has its moments, but given the amount of talent assembled onscreen, the rather pedestrian results can't help but feel like a letdown.

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Jason Bailey

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It speaks volumes about the current shortage of this type of project that so many talented people were willing to attach themselves to a picture as subpar as this one.

Jun 18, 2016

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Alissa Wilkinson

Christianity Today

We get set piece after set piece, character moment after character moment, with few of them doing more than letting characters talk about themselves and tell each other things that we're not yet sure we believe.

Rated: 1/4

Apr 13, 2016

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Mark Kermode

Observer (UK)

There are a few enjoyable moments, with Fey and Fonda making you wish they had a movie of their own, but sadly the narrative is more concerned with the boys, whose relationship crises are altogether more formulaic and less interesting.

Rated: 2/5

Oct 26, 2014

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Regardless of how formulaic these sitcom situations prove to be, and how everything conveniently works out for most of the characters, it's a mildly watchable, R-rated, dysfunctional family comedy.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jul 29, 2022

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Charlotte Harrison

Charlotte Sometimes Goes to the Movies

[An] immensely underseen indie drama about four children returning home as adults when their father dies. This one is such a gem.

Apr 13, 2021

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Richard Crouse

The cast comes together as a unit and even though the movie veers toward easy sentimentality when an edgier approach might have been more realistic, the players are the ties that bind the family and this movie together.

Rated: 4/5

Feb 1, 2021

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julie b Sadly despite Jason Bateman with a beard 🫶🏻 this is less than the sum of its parts. It has a great cast, promising premise, and some entertaining moments, but there’s so little chemistry with the lines and how they’re delivered. Just not super well written :( Rated 2/5 Stars • Rated 2 out of 5 stars 09/19/24 Full Review David H Every character in this movie is an awful human being (maybe the ice skating girl is ok). No one to relate to or root for and no reason to waste your time Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 07/13/24 Full Review Jim M With this many characters going through so many unimaginably trying situations, it makes it impossible to go in depth on any of them enough for the viewer to care at all. It is difficult for me to NOT like something Bateman and Fey are in, but these screenwriter's were "up" to the task. The ending is worthy of a teenage girl watching her dad try to dance at a wedding eye-roll. Absolutely awful. Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 06/24/24 Full Review Dani G Typical family dramedy with the same situations and same character structure, and kind of the same developments that we've seen in many movies... But nice still, thanks to its charming cast of players Rated 2.5/5 Stars • Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 05/25/24 Full Review Nicole C Loved this movie and have watched it several times with different people and everyone loved it. Great cast, funny and bittersweet moments, and I am shocked it didn't have higher ratings. Totally underrated movie. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/09/24 Full Review Alexander H Based on critic reviews, apparently, I'm a know-nothing sucker who is easily entertained and am too stupid to realize this movie is a sanitized retread of other, seemingly more effective movies.But fuck it I loved this movie. It makes me want to have more kids and psychologically manipulate them so that they are guaranteed to turn into charming, yet self-destructive adults like the Altmans. I'll defend this movie to the death (but maybe I should really just read the book). Everyone's allowed to have a guilty pleasure. Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/02/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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Shawn Levy Director Jason Bateman Judd Altman Tina Fey Wendy Altman Jane Fonda Hilary Altman Adam Driver Phillip Altman Rose Byrne Penny Moore

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Synopsis 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 (Jane Fonda) 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.

Director: Shawn Levy
Producer: Paula Weinstein, Shawn Levy, Jeff Levine
Screenwriter: Jonathan Tropper
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: Spring Creek Productions, 21 Laps Entertainment
Rating: R (Sexual Content|Language|Some Drug Use)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 19, 2014, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 14, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $34.3M
Runtime: 1h 43m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital, Datasat