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Our Idiot Brother (2011)

Comedy | 90 minutes
3,06 670 votes

Genre: Comedy / Drama

Duration: 90 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Jesse Peretz

Stars: Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks and Zooey Deschanel

IMDb score: 6,4 (91.594)

Releasedate: 26 August 2011

Our Idiot Brother plot

"Everybody has one"

Ned (Rudd) sees the good in every situation and in everyone, often causing him to clash with the rest of the world – especially with his family. After serving time as punishment for marijuana dealing, Ned moves in with his oldest sister Liz (Mortimer), a high-strung mother of two. He helps raise her seven-year-old son River, but his version of what's funny for kids doesn't match his sister's. After turning Liz's life upside down, he moves in with middle sister Miranda (Banks), a passionate journalist. He soon makes a mess of her big break and disrupts her carefully built love life. He then has to go to his youngest sister Natalie (Deschanel), whose wild past as a child threatens to destroy her happiness. Everywhere Ned goes, he leaves behind chaos, but ultimately also a tinge of truth and happiness.

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blurp194

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Nice feel good movie. Not with the stereotypical story that seems to belong to that genre. Not exactly with the series of silly jokes, but just a bit more original.

Ned may indeed be a bit stupid - naive is the better word really. But isn't that the naivety we should all prefer? I think that's the message we can take with us. I think the world could be a much better place for it.

Well played, Paul Rudd does a great job, and so do the three sisters. For me Zooey Deschanel is not the star - he still has a bit of a stigma because of (500) Days of Summer (2009). That's the mark of a really good actress, when she plays a part so well that I still hate her two years later. But Emily Mortimer is all right. beautiful person.

And by the way, there are also a lot of gorgeous actresses taking part, much more than the one star who is allowed to walk around in the average feel-good movie. Makes the movie feel a lot more feel good.

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mrklm

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After serving eight months for selling weed to a cop [Bob Stephenson], gullible benefactor Ned [Paul Rudd] returns to his girlfriend Janet [Kathryn Hahn] to find that she's started dating the not too dimwitted Billy [TJ Miller]. Ned first seeks shelter with his mother [Shirley Knight] but feels suffocated there and then asks sister Liz [Emily Mortimer] for help because she said the door was always open for him. Despite her husband [Steve Coogan]'s squabbles, she doesn't leave her brother out in the cold, but his presence wreaks havoc in her relationship and later in the relationship of his other two sisters Natalie [Zooey Deschanel] and Miranda [Elizabeth Banks]. The role of the well-meaning, naive Ned is a perfect fit for Rudd and he plays his part without irony, so that despite his blunders he always retains the sympathy of the viewer. Mortimer, Deschanel and Banks are completely believable as the sisters who sometimes want to make fun of 'their idiot brother', if only because they can blame their own mistakes. A superior cast brings the amusing screenplay by Evgenia Peretz and David Schisgall to life.

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Robi

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The film itself is quite enjoyable. The brother as the outsider of the family. But it soon becomes apparent that the sisters are actually just as similar and you quickly wonder what this film is all about. And then it runs so sweetly from one unreal and exaggerated situation to another where all clichés and predictability are not shunned. The absolute low point is the film's denouement. This is another typical example of how a movie can be Americanized. Is there also a French more profound version of this film?

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