Summary
The enduring friendship between the Walling and Ostroff families is tested when Nina, the prodigal Ostroff daughter, returns home for the holidays after a five-year absence and enters into an affair with David, head of the Walling family.
The enduring friendship between the Walling and Ostroff families is tested when Nina, the prodigal Ostroff daughter, returns home for the holidays after a five-year absence and enters into an affair with David, head of the Walling family.
This laboured families-in-strife comedy drama doesn't merit the calibre of its stellar line-up. Hugh Laurie, Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt and Allison Janney play best friends and neighbours in a well-to-do New Jersey suburb. They hope that Laurie and Keener's son (Adam Brody) will fall for Platt and Janney's daughter (Leighton Meester) when she comes home for Thanksgiving after a five-year absence. Instead, she begins an affair with Laurie, causing turmoil and threatening marriages, but there is a suggestion that these complacent, middle-aged people needed their lives shaken up. It's all mildly amusing, if fairly obvious, stuff and it's impeccably played by the superb cast. But you can't help feeling that they all deserve something rather more worthy of their talents.
role | name |
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David Walling | Hugh Laurie |
Nina Ostroff | Leighton Meester |
Paige Walling | Catherine Keener |
Cathy Ostroff | Allison Janney |
Terry Ostroff | Oliver Platt |
Vanessa Walling | Alia Shawkat |
Toby Walling | Adam Brody |
Ethan | Sam Rosen |
Roger | Tim Guinee |
Henry Chart | Hoon Lee |
Maya | Aya Cash |
role | name |
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Director | Julian Farino |