Director: Jesse Peretz
Writer: Evgenia Peretz
David Schisgall
Starring: Paul Rudd
Elizabeth Banks
Zooey Deschanel
Emily Mortimer
Kathryn Hahn
Rashida Jones
Steve Coogan
Adam Scott
Matthew Mindler
Shirley Knight
Rating: ****
A gentle, sweet and funny film about an idealistic man, and his busy, hardworking sisters.
Ned (Rudd) is a Biodynamic farmer living with his girlfriend Janet (Hahn), and to pay the bills he sells fruit and vegetables at a local market. The film opens with him at his stool, and when he sells drugs to a uniformed officer, he gets arrested, and they set up the fact he is a bit of an idiot. Months later he is released early for good behavior, and with nowhere to live, he goes back home to his mum (Knight) and three sisters, Liz, Miranda and Nat (Mortimer, Banks & Deshanel).
Writer: Evgenia Peretz
David Schisgall
Starring: Paul Rudd
Elizabeth Banks
Zooey Deschanel
Emily Mortimer
Kathryn Hahn
Rashida Jones
Steve Coogan
Adam Scott
Matthew Mindler
Shirley Knight
Rating: ****
A gentle, sweet and funny film about an idealistic man, and his busy, hardworking sisters.
Ned (Rudd) is a Biodynamic farmer living with his girlfriend Janet (Hahn), and to pay the bills he sells fruit and vegetables at a local market. The film opens with him at his stool, and when he sells drugs to a uniformed officer, he gets arrested, and they set up the fact he is a bit of an idiot. Months later he is released early for good behavior, and with nowhere to live, he goes back home to his mum (Knight) and three sisters, Liz, Miranda and Nat (Mortimer, Banks & Deshanel).
Liz is married to documentary maker Dylan (Coogan) and together they have a little boy, River (Mindler), and a baby girl, Echo. Liz has gone from the hot older sister to a frumpy housewife, with a husband who's less than faithful. Miranda is a tightly wound journalist for Vanity fair, she is trying to get her first major article published and in her eyes Ned is getting in the way and messing everything up for her. When he tries to set her up with her neighbour, Jeremy (Scott), things don't go to plan and to top it off he ends up, accidentally, losing her her job. Finally, Nat, who is the youngest sister and has recently discovered she is a lesbian and has settled down with Cindy (Jones). She isn't the biggest fan of the whole settling down, and after a one night stand gets pregnant, and ends up confiding in Ned. This of course turns out to be a mistake and her relationship is soon pushed to the edge. In the end, and after allot of soul searching, the threes sisters realise that in fact Ned just wanted to help and be a family again. So the girls head off to his ex-girlfriend's house to get Ned's best friend and dog, Willie Nelson, back, bringing the family together again.
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