Adult Beginners

2015 "Some people just can't handle growing up."
5.6| 1h30m| R| en
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A young, hipster entrepreneur crashes and burns on the eve of his company’s big launch. With his entire life in disarray, he leaves Manhattan to move in with his estranged pregnant sister, brother-in-law and three year-old nephew in the suburbs — only to become their manny. Faced with real responsibility, he may finally have to grow up — but not without some bad behavior first.

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Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life
GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.
Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
mihai_chindris Nothing is more important than the love that brothers share for each other, right? But when it comes to facing the truth, we learn from this movie that it is hard to hide it and to tell it, also. Whatever the result, one has to take it all and experience from mistakes. That's what we are dealing with right here. We have the "uncle", who's the dumb troublemaker and the sister, who's the victim and who has to play along two man, the brother and the husband. Unfortunately, unpredictable events happen and life seems almost ruined for the couple, but the brother has the knowledge from previous situations and knows to do the right thing. For a lovely story, we have a happy ending and a happy family. Well, that's it. I ain't got anything else to say :).
Phillim I give everything a ten, because I can't figure the equation to score a film with a number. That said, every film has its league -- this one is in the minors, as it aims to be. Lifetime Channel stuff at heart, it has a fine cast doing very good work.Comedian Nick Kroll wrote the story, and would have done better to let an actor play the lead. His comic timing is good, and his sad-sack persona is likable and generally works here, but is one-note. Actors know to avoid the mimetic fallacy: i.e., not to make the fundamental mistake of assuming a 'shallow' character has no depth. (This is an actor committing character suicide -- the blankness becomes a repetitive chore for an audience to suffer.)There is very good, very honest work in this film from Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale. Excellent low-humor cameo by Bobby Moynihan. The little kid is great. Sufficient laughs in a not-bad script.Listen, I admire that anybody gets a career in show business. This project looks to be mostly sincere and doesn't suck completely, and Kroll is funny in the TV 'Roasts', so, since it's free to do so, I give it a ten.
blahtoyoushir Honestly, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this movie! The characters were lovable, and the plot line was close to nil (as in, close to no drama for the sake of drama, WHOO!) Hudson was a hilarious second character, and I enjoyed his devoted support to Jake; hooray for buddies! I will admit that I wasn't as invested in the beginning, but the steady, almost melancholy beat kept me. There was a fine line that they had to walk with one of the plot points, but they handled it well by appealing to our desire to see the good in people. The last, almost epilogue-like leg sort of confused me because it was a bit of an abrupt shift. I must applaud the casting of Teddy because he seemed very natural, although I did catch him looking at the camera once or twice. All in all, it was a movie about family coming and going, and I think that they did it well.
Aktham Tashtush The movie starts really slow ,, not much comedy to laugh at ,, but the plot grows gradually until it peaks after the swimming pool "adult beginners" thingy. The screenplay is just okay ,, the writing seems to be getting involved much more with the drama than it is with the comedy ,, not much excitement or unpredictability, you can easily know where things are going in the movie. Honestly, the trailer was kinda misleading with all of these funny bits which seem to reflect the 5% comedy in the movie.As for the cast, Nick Kroll and Rose Byrne performances was fine they reflected the depressed newly parent pregnant woman and post- failing business guy. For me ,, and as a supposedly comedy movie,, the scenes with Jason Mantzoukas, Bobby Moynihan and Joel McHale had much more comedy and "giggles" than the leads.Overall,, the movie wen just okay,, for me it deserves no higher than 5 as a rating the IMDb average rating by 1,518 users is 5.5 which seems close enough ;)