Our Idiot Brother (2011)

Directed by Jesse Peretz · Comedy, Drama

Starring Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer, Steve Coogan, Rashida Jones, Kathryn Hahn, T.J. Miller, Shirley Knight, Adam Scott, Matthew Mindler, Hugh Dancy, Janet Montgomery, Sterling K. Brown, Lydia Haug, Kathy Fitzgerald, Wrenn Schmidt, Francesca Papalia, Bob Stephenson, Peter Hermann, Kelly Briter, Nick Sullivan, Kayla Squiteri, Summer Squiteri, Gina Artese, Sylvestre Rasuk, Andrew Secunda, Adi Hanash, Nikki E. Walker, Marceline Hugot, Camille Bright, Teja Frank, Alexia Rasmussen, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe, Polly Draper, Neal Lerner, James Biberi, Katie Aselton, Julie White

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Everybody has onethe sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz, Miranda and Natalie, that person is their perennially upbeat brother, Ned. But as each of their lives begins to unravel, Ned's family comes to realise that Ned isn't such an idiot after all.

My review · Reviewed 08/02/2024

The movie reminded me a bit of Peter Sellers' Being There, until it morphed into something surprising at the end. The change was a welcome one as the story was not terribly entertaining up until that point. While Rudd is the star here, it is the sisters that are by far the more interesting characters. There may have been a better movie in there.