Salon.com > Our Idiot Brother http://www.salon.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:48:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Pick of the week: A stoner comedy with heart and smarts http://www.salon.com/2011/08/26/our_idiot_brother/ http://www.salon.com/2011/08/26/our_idiot_brother/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:30:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/andrew_ohehir/2011/08/25/our_idiot_brother I'm not going to make grand claims for the easygoing comedy "Our Idiot Brother," which stars Paul Rudd as the hippie-flavored loser who careens through his three high-achieving sisters' lives, to somewhat predictable effect. It's a familiar variety of upscale Indiewood sitcom, not especially distinguished as cinema, and so on. But at the end of a summer crowded with supremely calculated movies composed of clever spare parts and cynical attitude, "Our Idiot Brother" arrives as a breath of fresh autumnal air, faintly scented with cannabis. This may be a lightweight film, but it's also a distinctive, idiosyncratic and even personal one, directed by Jesse Peretz ("The Ex") and co-written by his sister, Evgenia Peretz, and her husband, David Schisgall. More important still, it's a warm, intelligent and highly contemporary comedy with just the right amount of edge, a terrific ensemble cast and a big, fuzzy golden retriever ready to knock you down and lick you like a giant lollipop.

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