This Is Where I Leave You Page #2

Synopsis: When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. Confronting their history and the frayed states of their relationships among the people who know and love them best, they ultimately reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting ways amid the chaos, humor, heartache and redemption that only families can provide-driving us insane even as they remind us of our truest, and often best, selves.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Shawn Levy
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
44
Rotten Tomatoes:
42%
R
Year:
2014
103 min
$26,730,317
Website
5,085 Views


till he could go down the hill...

...turn on the game, heh...

...and then he just would've talked

about how full of sh*t everybody was, heh.

They didn't really miss him.

And he would've been wrong.

We do miss him.

Hey, man.

- Hi, son.

- Hey, Mom.

Hey, Sunflower.

Hey, Horry.

Hey, Horry.

- Sorry about Mort, man.

- Yeah.

Thanks, buddy. How you doing?

Living the dream.

Yeah. Good to see you.

Oh, no.

No, no, Mom, you gotta be kidding me.

- It's actually more comfortable than it looks.

- I doubt that.

Wendy's kids are in Paul's room,

so I gave your room to Paul.

Nice.

Annie's ovulating,

and I figured they could use the privacy.

Yeah. Well...

Paul and Annie only live about a half hour

away. How come they have to sleep here?

I want all my kids under one roof again.

Obviously, when Quinn gets here,

we'll make different arrangements.

- But this is okay, right?

- Yeah.

- Yeah?

- It's good.

- Be fine.

- Okay.

- Come up soon.

- Okay.

Visitors'll be here any minute.

Judd, it's starting!

You're shitting us, right?

They're Shiva chairs. You sit low

to the ground as a sign of mourning.

That's why they're like that.

- Don't some people sit Shiva for three days?

- I've seen that. That's a thing.

- It's not a thing.

- Maybe that could be our thing.

- It can't be.

- They do it in California. We could pioneer that.

We're not gonna pioneer it.

Nobody here's gonna pioneer it.

The word "Shiva" is Hebrew for "seven."

Seven days, no work, no travel. Your ass

is in those seats. Those are the rules.

I'd love to find the word for "three."

- I don't think Dad...

- Stop it!

This was your father's dying wish,

and you're negotiating?

He was not a perfect man or a perfect father,

but he sure as hell was better than most.

- Mom...

- No!

Your father had one final request,

and we are gonna honor it.

It's gonna be hard,

it's gonna be uncomfortable...

...and we're gonna get

on each other's nerves.

But for the next seven days,

you are all my children again.

And you are all grounded.

What are you waiting for? Come on.

Yup. Any particular seat?

- I'll take her.

- No. No, I got her.

- She's fine. - She's exhausted.

- She should get a nap.

Judd, Paul.

Shh.

You need to put a baby

in that woman yesterday.

I'm working on it.

- Have you had your man parts checked yet?

- Come on, not now, Wendy.

Because you may have emptied them

over the years.

My room was next to yours.

My room was next to yours.

Well, this is great. I can tell it's gonna be

a really good experience for all you guys.

So I'm just gonna let you sit here

for a bit.

- Thanks.

- Reconnect. You got it.

I will be back later... Dude, don't.

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Jonathan Tropper

Jonathan Tropper (born February 19, 1970) is an American writer and an adjunct faculty member at Manhattanville College. more…

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