This Is Where I Leave You
After many years of absence, hatred, and loneliness, four brothers have to return to their home and live together and with their strange mother, after the death of their father, the thing that leads them to regain their feelings of belonging, love, and the family ties, so they cooperate, in order to overcome all the obstacles and hardships they face.
20 May 1968, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
18 May 1970, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, USA
14 March 1976, New York City, New York, USA
26 October 1972, Provo, Utah, USA
2 January 1975, Milford, Michigan, USA
23 July 1973, Westchester, Illinois, USA
14 January 1969, Rye, New York, USA
21 December 1937, New York City, New York, USA
6 March 1967, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
30 January 1986, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
4 August 1981, Gulf Breeze, Florida, USA
June 18, 2016
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.
October 16, 2014
Once in awhile, a reviewer's darkest suspicions about a film butt up against a sneaky pleasure in its incidental epiphanies. I confess to being conflicted.
September 19, 2014
This Is Where I Leave You amounts to everything I can't stand about certain American movies. It gathers too many good, smart actors and gives most of them almost nothing interesting to play.
April 18, 2016
All too often, the desire of the audience dovetails with that of the characters: We really just want to get the hell out of this house.
August 17, 2016
The stellar cast is first rate, elevating whatever weaknesses there are in the material, and the overall result is an endearing, dysfunctional family that you'll enjoying spending a few hours with.
October 23, 2014
In the best dramedies, of course, laughter and tears alternate seamlessly and gracefully, and you leave both entertained and enlightened. Alas, this isn't that film.
October 01, 2014
Occasionally, Hollywood will step forward with a family drama that actually manages to tinker with actual pain... "This Is Where I Leave You" has no edge, no darkness, no texture, no character to speak of.
June 21, 2016
The Altmans might be way ahead of the Osbournes and Kardashians in terms of letting their private moments hang out, but the movie is as profound as a reality show in its exploration of family dynamics.
September 21, 2014
Mawkish, self-satisfied and false, This Is Where I Leave You strenuously attempts to wring poignancy from its familial clashes and catharsis. More often, it's cringe-inducing.
September 25, 2014
The most charitable thing you can say about This Is Where I Leave You is that it is resolutely innocuous -- a nothing of a movie, neutered and sanitary.
