![]() ![]() Paul: I’ve been the dutiful son, running our father’s sporting goods store while my siblings escaped to actual, interesting lives. And my sister-in-law Annie (Kathryn Hahn), who was my girlfriend before she married Paul, has been trying unsuccessfully to have a baby and thinks I might have the goods for the job. Now she shows up begging for forgiveness and announcing she’s pregnant. Judd (Jason Bateman): I found my wife Quinn (Abigail Spencer) in bed with my shock-jock boss (Dax Shepard). But they are money to a movie that thinks we’d all be healthier and happier if we just aired our most painful loves and grudges. ![]() She never considered that exposing family secrets to a million readers might be toxic to her children. ![]() ![]() “Secrets are cancer to a family,” says Hillary, who recently acquired plastic breasts that peek out of her low-cut blouse like cantaloupes in the first stage of insurrection. This Is Where I Leave You, scripted by Jonathan Tropper from his novel and directed by Shawn Levy, is that movie, with more Jews and an overbearing Mom who wrote pop-psychology books using her children as test cases. Thirty years ago, The Big Chill convened seven friends of a dead man and confined them for a weekend of soul-searching and problem-thrashing. ![]()
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