Sentences with phrase «reunite under strained»

His three children from two marriages (played by Sandler, Ben Stiller and Elizabeth Marvel) reunite under strained circumstances and everybody talks for two straight hours.

For this sad but ultimately optimistic tale of estranged brothers reuniting under strained, phony circumstances, Anderson, Coppola, and Schwartzman set up a literal scenario to showcase the old metaphor that life is a journey, and while some of that theme gets blatantly obvious near the somewhat problematic end, the journey of the film itself more than compensates.