Good start, but then it gets ruined

Excellent, smart action film.

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

OK, I love family dramas. In General. This had about four things too many going on which is a common disease in this kind of film but there was also some great laughs. He finds a couple of joints in his father's sport coat. Dad was a stoner? No, it was probably medicinal. It always is."Classic. I remember in high school finding joints of the best Thai weed when I tried on my older brother's sport coat at his house in Hawaii. Classic. I was so rooting for a miscarriage. I honestly thing the world would be a better place if there were a lot more of those and a lot fewer accidental pregnancies, but I guess that I'm just a romantic at heart.

The actual factor any audience wants in a perfect movie is its ability to hold them from the very beginning. Either it be the modern society cliché or be the long lasting parenting this movie excels in every part. Gearing for the dad's funeral and reuniting the emotions certainly entertained me. The cast is flawless and I found every part should be clearly praised. This will certainly boost up for some family golden moments. The brothers and their differences, the eldest one being not so funny and the youngest one being the most naughty is what we all expect from the family pack, but the arrangements of their characters and the way they are presented will not leave you being bored at any instance. It has done a decent job in handling the old days, old days link-ups and has exactly shown their effects in the future when actually you need those to be back again. But I laughed hard in some scenes of Church or even more. So, the perfect blend of emotions, comedy, reality inside the family makes this movie a must watch.

When I was very young I sat down and watched a movie called Passed Away (1992) starring Bob Hoskins, Jack Warden, William Petersen and Tim Curry. It wasn't that great but as my earliest introduction to black comedy, specifically the reunion-at-a-funeral plot-line, it was gold. This is Where I Leave You is a little more somber in tone than Passed Away or for that matter Death at a Funeral (2007) but the plot is still roughly the same. A maladjusted family comes together to mourn the passing of the broods patriarch. Before, during and after the funeral family secrets are revealed, rivalries are renewed and dysfunction causes chaos.You mean this movie still doesn't make up for The Ex (2006)? This is Where I Leave You failed to get much critical or box-office attention despite a talented cast which includes Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda and Adam Driver. Part of that reason is because it's an uneasy blend of comedy and drama which never reaches the level of farce or sad-sack melodrama; it's somewhere in-between. Based on a memoir of the same name by Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You doesn't really focus on big revelations or reveals though there are a few sprinkled in. Its more about representing an interesting and unique family honestly and with affection. Can't really fault a movie for that.

When their father passes away, four grown siblings, return home to sit Shiva with their mother in "This is Where I Leave You," from 2014.The film stars Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, Rose Byrne, Corey Stoll, and Timothy Olyphant. Back where they started, the siblings confront their old lives and loves and reflect on where they are at present.What happens is funny, uncomfortable, sad, and unexpected as they put up with each other and their mother, who pays little attention to discretion as she brags about the sex life she had with her husband and the size of his ... sexuality. Jane Fonda is excellent, outspoken and surprisingly motherly, considering the personality of the character.I love Jason Bateman and watch him in anything in which he appears. He doesn't disappoint here as Judd, with his serious, straight-on delivery and his Everyman frustration. But that isn't to put down the rest of the cast, all of whom give good performances. Rose Byrne as Penny, Judd's old girlfriend, is a standout and again shows her versatility as an actress. Anyone who saw her intense performance on "Damages" can't fail to be impressed by this chipper, cheerful character. Family dynamics make for good movies if they're realistic. Though some of the reviewers here didn't feel they rang true, for me they did - bad marriages, old loves left behind, taking stock of what one has accomplished, and future goals -- the death of a parent and being around family is a time of contemplation."This is Where I Leave You" is good but it is an uneasy combination of comedy and drama, sort of not knowing which it wanted to be. On the one hand, Bateman and Fey are often associated with comedy, and then on the other, there were some serious issues covered.Worth checking out.