JL-D is a novelist, husband Tobias Menzies a therapist, their son Owen Teague works at a weed store, JL-D’s sister Michaela Watkins is a decorator, her husband Arian Moayed an actor, and they’re all having work or personal crises. I thought we’d be spending 90 minutes on the husband admitting he doesn’t like the wife’s new book, but it’s actually an ensemble piece of choreographed disappointments and slights, a grown-up comedy of characters working through their feelings, absolutely unheard-of. Not feeling too grown-up myself, since I couldn’t make it through the movie without getting the Flight of the Conchords song about hurt feelings in my head.
The main cast, plus psych patient Zach Cherry:


