Sentences with phrase «our idiot brother»

Mr. Burkle also helped Harvey Weinstein finance movies, including «Our Idiot Brother,» a 2011 comedy starring Paul Rudd.

I used to be a libertarian, until I realized that although I would prosper under such a system, my idiot brother and elderly mother would be eaten alive.

Maybe his idiot brother — you know Nutsadamus — he would make all kinds of crazy predictions...

I read Ayn Rand in college like a lot of people and I quickly realized that although I would prosper in «RandyLand» ™ — my idiot brother and my mother with COPD would be eaten alive.

Well, that's whenever she isn't weighed down by her idiot brother, but, thankfully, these moments are few and far between.

Other film credits include STEP BROTHERS, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, WANDERLUST, OUR IDIOT BROTHER, HOW DO YOU KNOW, THE HOLIDAY, THE LAST MIMZY, and ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY.

Strange, then, how Our Idiot Brother wastes its lone asset — there's not enough idiot, and far too many boring savants.

Our Idiot Brother may be what you expect, but it may also be a big surprise if you go into it expecting a comedy like we're expecting to see come out today.

Critic Consensus: It's decidedly uneven, but like Paul Rudd's performance in the title role, Our Idiot Brother is too charming to resist.

Four siblings for a comedy like Our Idiot Brother doesn't get too much better than those four.

Miller appeared in supporting roles in Get Him to the Greek (2010), Our Idiot Brother (2011) and Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012).

Thanks to a fun performance from Paul Rudd, «Our Idiot Brother» is full of charm and gentle laughs.

Our Idiot Brother is a movie worth watching, especially for fans of Paul Rudd, as this is one of his more vibrant and fun performances to date.

Ned is imprisoned early on in Our Idiot Brother for selling weed to a police officer.

Our Idiot Brother is a charming comedy with a solid ensemble cast.

The idiot brother also creates miracles; he doesn't walk on water, but how can you explain a dog named Willie Nelson meeting another dog name Dolly Parton?

hollywoodnews.com: The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that it has acquired domestic rights to Jesse Peretz's new film MY IDIOT BROTHER, which had its world premiere Saturday night at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.

A week ago, we reported on Paul Rudd signing up to star in My Idiot Brother, the tale of a man who brings chaos into the lives of his more ambitious sisters.

Marc Turtletaub is a veteran producer who's no stranger to Sundance having been here with films like Sunshine Cleaning, Our Idiot Brother, Safety...

In «My Idiot Brother,» which you premiered at Sundance this year, you play a bisexual character named Natalie.

She and her idiot brother, Brett (Jake Lacy), are, of course, the real monsters — a concept which inspires both of these performers to overact like crazy.

The absurd pair's bowler hats give the film a whiff of Dadaism and René Magritte's Surrealist paintings, while the in - bred Van Peteghems, including Aude and André's idiot brother Christian (Jean - Luc Vincent), invoke Monty Python's «upper - class twits» — Pythonesque, too, is the severed foot La Loute's mother offers her hungry brood — or even the self - indulgent gentry of Jean Renoir's La Règle du Jeu (1939).

Our Idiot Brother isn't mandatory viewing but it's a sweet, well - meaning comedy anchored by a stand - out performance by Rudd.

Jack Quaid (son of Dennis and Meg Ryan) and Brian Gleeson (son of Brendan and brother of Domhnall) play Joe Bang's idiot brothers who are introduced as they're tossing toilet seats like horseshoes, and somehow they work, but Hillary Swank as a late - in - the - game FBI agent with a bizarrely controlled cadance is a misfire.

AVC: When Our Idiot Brother played the Sundance Film Festival, Jesse Peretz said he wanted to make the movie just so he could have you grow a beard for it.

Paul Rudd's charm has seldom been taxed as relentlessly as in Our Idiot Brother, which might as well be called Paul Rudd Is Charming: The Movie.

Yeah, and somebody was also saying that in Idiot Brother, of my three sisters, two of them I have played opposite in other movies where we were either married or romantically involved.

The A.V. Club recently spoke to Deschanel about her collaborative process with M. Ward, the challenges of writing songs on unrequited love while being happily married (to Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard), and playing a virginal bride and a less - virginal lesbian, respectively, in David Gordon Green's Your Highness and Jesse Peretz's My Idiot Brother.

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Our Idiot Brother is an affable enough time - waster custom - made for casual viewing on cable TV, but Rudd deserves better.

Before the film's release, The A.V. Club spoke with Rudd about getting into character, his off - screen relationships with his onscreen siblings, and the similarities between Our Idiot Brother and the one movie from his past people are always eager to discuss.

Amusing and lightly likable, «Our Idiot Brother» slides by on the strength of its fabulous cast.

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Appearing in 1.78:1, Our Idiot Brother represents my first experience with a live - action Weinstein / Anchor Bay Blu - ray.

Atom Egoyan's The Captive plays like the overeager idiot brother to the filmmaker's superior The Sweet Hereafter.

Our Idiot Brother's own theatrical trailer is annoyingly absent altogether.

But perhaps the oddest entry on his annual run through the movies is the tie between silent movie sensation «The Artist» and the thoroughly average ensemble comedy «Our Idiot Brother.»

The standard but suitable «The Making of Our Idiot Brother» (14:36) gathers remarks from Peretz, his screenwriter sister, producers Peter Saraf and Anthony Bregman, and all principal cast members about the characters, the story, and their attraction to the project.

Despite a fifth place opening on one of the slowest weekends of the year, Our Idiot Brother actually ranks as one of the least disappointing releases in the Weinsteins» six trying years of self - distribution, its gross placing it in the top quintile of the company's output.

For a comedy whose humor arises almost entirely from character - based situations, «Our Idiot Brother» features a plethora of characters who are incompletely drawn.

Though it didn't do much to assert his star power, Our Idiot Brother does reinforce the talents of Paul Rudd and with more dramatic credibility than many of his recent mainstream films.

Paul will next star in Jesse Peretz's My Idiot Brother.

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According to Deadline, Ethan Hawke, Rose Byrne and Chris O'Dowd are to star in Juliet, Naked, an adaptation of British author Nick Hornby's novel from director Jesse Peretz (My Idiot Brother) and screenwriters Tamara Jenkins (The Savages) and Jim Taylor (Sideways).

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OUR IDIOT BROTHER, profane title notwithstanding, is a liltingly transcendent comedy.

We've come to discuss «Our Idiot Brother» and it's story of the black sheep titular character at odds with his demanding sisters but our conversation quickly turns silly and random in the best way possible.

She had smallish TV roles in the likes of «Body of Proof» and «Blue Bloods,» and on the big - screen in «Our Idiot Brother» and gave an excellent performance in Alex Gibney «s «Client 9,» but it's «Boardwalk» that really provided a showcase.

The awesome and hilarious Kathryn Hahn is joining the Stiller - directed remake, and even if you don't know her by name, you probably recognize her face from her long running stint on «Crossing Jordan» or more recently for stealing scenes in everything from «Wanderlust» to «Our Idiot Brother» to «Step Brothers.»

She is currently working on David Frankel's «The Big Year» co-starring Jim Parsons and Owen Wilson, and Jesse Peretz's «My Idiot Brother» co-starring Zooey Deschanel and Paul Rudd.