An unlikeable selfish writer (Josh Cooke) goes home to see his widowed father (Barry Bostwick) and finds the house overrun by needy family members and dad's latest main squeeze (Lainie Kazan), a sexually aggressive older woman who analyzes everyone's frigidity level, and a supposedly dying neighbor who won't leave him alone and likes to publicly humiliate him. She's also very demanding in how he writes her obituary. He's not having great luck in his career so he needs a time out from his regular life, but this change could drive anyone to either attempted suicide, a breakdown or the desire to move somewhere and create a population of one.
This starts off interestingly enough, but the female characters outside of Kazan are truly grating (and to say that about Kazan says a lot about the other women), and the house where he grew up has been turned into macadamia manor. His brother is being henpecked by his wife and daughter, and he is forced to sleep in a bathtub where his bed once was and listen to his father and cousin have sex. Very loud non-stop sex. Okay so they went a bit overboard with character development, and for the most part, these are not people I want to spend 90 minutes with. Quirkiness today is code for insane obnoxious personality disorder, and that makes this a very difficult film to get through. It may be a good acting exercise, but outside of that, it's torture.
This starts off interestingly enough, but the female characters outside of Kazan are truly grating (and to say that about Kazan says a lot about the other women), and the house where he grew up has been turned into macadamia manor. His brother is being henpecked by his wife and daughter, and he is forced to sleep in a bathtub where his bed once was and listen to his father and cousin have sex. Very loud non-stop sex. Okay so they went a bit overboard with character development, and for the most part, these are not people I want to spend 90 minutes with. Quirkiness today is code for insane obnoxious personality disorder, and that makes this a very difficult film to get through. It may be a good acting exercise, but outside of that, it's torture.