The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Duration: 110 minuten
Alternative title: The Meyerowitz Stories
Country:
United States
Directed by: Noah Baumbach
Stars: Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller and Dustin Hoffman
IMDb score:
6,9 (55.329)
Releasedate: 13 October 2017
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) plot
An estranged family reunites in New York. There they celebrate the work of their artistic father, which is exhibited in a retrospective. His children try to cope with their elderly father and the influence he has on them.
Actors and actresses
Danny Meyerowitz
Matthew Meyerowitz
Harold Meyerowitz
Maureen Meyerowitz
Jean Meyerowitz
Eliza Meyerowitz
Julia Meyerowitz
Randy
L.J. Shapiro
Loretta Shapiro
Reviews & comments
james_cameron
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- 6539 messages
- 9463 votes
Mediocre Netflix original from director Noah Baumbach. He has a great cast, but both the dialogues and the characters are just off. It's just not all that interesting and/or funny enough. The neurotic characters also quickly start to irritate.
IH88
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- 9423 messages
- 3155 votes
“It's called flirting when you're young. I'm not sure what it's called when you're over 70.”
Fantastic. The Meyerowitz Stories is a tragicomic film about a father's difficult relationship with his sons, a very strange daughter and his many (ex)-wives. And about regret, growing up, the relationship you build yourself with your children and the bond between two brothers. It is a film with a sometimes dark undertone, but generally light-hearted atmosphere. You must like the strange humor, but I really had to laugh out loud a number of times.
The semi-pornographic films of (grand)daughter Eliza (Van Patten) that everyone thinks are good, but are so bad that you can't help but laugh, the restaurant scenes between Hoffman and Stiller, the conversations between Sandler and Stiller/Van Patten/Hoffman, everything what comes out of Hoffman's mouth etc. The dialogues are razor sharp and what the actors do with it is phenomenal. The acting by Thompson, Hoffman and Marvel sometimes feels like the caricatural, but it all still feels genuine and lifelike. As if you are really watching a dysfunctional but colorful family. That is also due to Sandler and Stiller, who once again show that they can do more than just play funny characters. The Meyerowitz Stories has therefore also become a human story, with an absurd and comic touch.
Captain Pervert
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- 4542 messages
- 2060 votes
This is really one of those movies that makes me wonder: why are you making this?
It's not funny. Sure, there are amusing moments in it. The editing is also witty, how a 'cut' takes place in the middle of a verbal abuse or tantrum. That's nice three times, but after that you've seen it.
It's not dramatic. I didn't feel anything for the characters. Their fates didn't interest me at all.
A series of events surrounding a family of uninteresting characters. An unrecognizable Dustin Hoffman, a disguised Emma Thompson, Ben Stiller playing a yup and Adam Sandler playing a working class mustache man.
At the end of the film we are really no further. Of course, the scene where Sandlers mumbles something to his father that he doesn't hear at all marks a bit of character development.
But is that it?
It is nothing, goes nowhere and becomes nothing.
Judging by the names of the director and actors, it is one big Jewish production. Not my thing? No idea. I don't like Seinfeld (the series and the person) either. As well as anything from Larry David.
I am shocked to see that director Baumbach is also responsible for the terrible movie "Greenberg". Also with Ben Stiller. That was truly a monstrosity of a movie.
So especially avoid that Baumbach.
2 stars
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