Arts & Entertainment

At the Movies: New Film Offers A Silly Time

Movie about siblings new in theaters this weekend.

If you are looking for a silly time, try catching this week’s newest release: Our Idiot Brother.

Here’s the plot from moviefone.com:

Every family has one: the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz (Emily Mortimer), Miranda (Elizabeth Banks) and Natalie (Zooey Deschanel), that person is their perennially upbeat brother Ned (Paul Rudd), an erstwhile organic farmer whose willingness to rely on the honesty of mankind is a less-than-optimum strategy for a tidy, trouble-free existence.

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Ned may be utterly lacking in common sense, but he is their brother and so, after his girlfriend dumps him and boots him off the farm, his sisters once again come to his rescue. As Liz, Miranda and Natalie each take a turn at housing Ned, their brother's unfailing commitment to honesty creates more than a few messes in their comfortable routines. But as each of their lives begins to unravel, Ned's family comes to realize that maybe, in believing and trusting the people around him; Ned isn’t such an idiot after all.

MPAA Rating: R

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Genre(s): Comedy

Distributor(s): The Weinstein Co.

Director(s): Jesse Peretz

Starring: Zooey Deschanel , Elizabeth Banks , Paul Rudd , Emily Mortimer , Shirley Knight Hopkins

Themes: sibling relationships, nothing goes right, eccentric families, dropping out

Tone: goofy, silly

Our Idiot Brother is playing locally at AMC Lake in the Hills 12, 311 North Randall Road, Lake in the Hills.

For movie times and a trailer or information on other new releases, click here for moviefone's website.


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