Film review: This is where i leave you(15, 103 mins)Comedy/Drama/Romance.
A year’s worth of soap plot wrapped up in 103 minutes
Emotional entanglements of a dysfunctional family provide the humour and pathos in Shawn Levy’s touching comedy of shared history and heartache.
Screenwriter Jonathan Tropper adapts his own bestselling novel, stitching together an entire year’s worth of TV soap opera plot threads into a freewheeling narrative that spreads joy and misery evenly among the underwritten characters.
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Hide AdRevelations come ridiculously thick and fast, requiring ever greater suspensions of disbelief, to the point that we wouldn’t be surprised if one of the central clan was unmasked as an extra-terrestrial doppelganger. Thankfully, Tropper peppers his script with sparkling one-liners.