synopsis of this is where i leave you jonathan tropper

Characters break off into very theatrical two-and-three person scenes for bickering, slap fights and the like.īateman and Fey scrap like siblings who have a lifetime of practice tormenting each other. Mom (Fonda) is the matriarch with newly enhanced breasts, a notorious book that spilled a lot of the childhood foibles of her kids and a few secrets of her own. Which is bad, because she tends to blurt out secrets, like Judd’s impending divorce. Wendy (Tina Fey) is the sister, the rock, mother of a toddler married to a callous workaholic and a busybody into everybody’s business. Older brother Paul (Stoll) stayed in town to run the family sporting goods store and marry Judd’s ex-girlfriend (Kathryn Hahn), a woman Paul is trying and failing to get pregnant. Younger brother Phillip (Driver, hilarious) is the spoiled baby of the family, a neer do well who shows up late to the funeral and invites his older, richer psycho-therapist girlfriend (Connie Britton) to the festivities. Judd (Bateman) gets the news about his dad while in the middle of a funk over walking in on his wife having sex with his radio shock-jock boss (Shepard). And assorted funny folk from Rose Byrne and Kathryn Hahn to Dax Shepard, Connie Britton and Timothy Olyphant turn up for amusing moments or tiny tastes of pathos.Īs casts go, that’s an embarrasment of riches. This story of unobservant Jews sitting shiva for their newly-deceased dad stars Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Adam Driver and Corey Stoll as the grumpy siblings and Jane Fonda as their over-sharing child psychotherapist mom.

Jonathan Tropper has turned his novel into a script that becomes the quintessential Shawn “Date Night”/”The Internship” Levy comedy - funny, occasionally touching, sometimes grating, always obvious. “This is Where I Leave You” is a big, broad dysfunctional family comedy, sort of a “Parenthood” pushed into R-rated “Adulthood” territory.

Synopsis of this is where i leave you jonathan tropper