After separating from his wife, unemployed Danny Meyerowitz (Adam Sandler) moves in with father Harold (Dustin Hoffman), a retired Bard College art professor and sculptor, and his third wife, Maureen (Emma Thompson), a pleasant if foggy alcoholic. Danny has a younger sister, Jean (Elizabeth Marvel), and they have a younger half-brother, Matthew (Ben Stiller). Danny is close to his daughter, Eliza (Grace Van Patten), who is starting college at Bard as a film student. Eliza shows one of her sexually obsessed films to her family, who try hard not to show they are taken aback and instead compliment its energy and production values. Some of Harold's work has been selected as part of a faculty group show at Bard, but Harold refuses to be part of a group show. Danny and Harold attend the MoMA retrospective of a friend and contemporary of Harold's, the more successful L.J. Shapiro (Judd Hirsch). There neither father nor son feels comfortable; Harold is stung by signs that the art world has forgotten him and chooses to literally run away down the street. Danny meets Shapiro's daughter, his childhood friend Loretta (Rebecca Miller), but he must leave to chase after Harold.
MPAA Rating: | NR |
Genre: | Comedy, Drama |
Country: | United States |
Produced By: | Noah Baumbach, Eli Bush, Scott Rudin, Lila Yacoub |
Directed By: | Noah Baumbach |
Written By: | Noah Baumbach |
Cast: | Gayle Rankin, Sakina Jaffrey, Michael Birnberg, Candice Bergen, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Sigourney Weaver, McManus Woodend, Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller, Mandy Siegfried, Justin Winley, Jason Daunno, Lyne Renee, Matthew Shear, Judd Hirsch, Michelle Santiago, Rebecca Miller, Emma Thompson, Benjamin Thys, Adam Driver, Mickey Sumner, Jordan Carlos, Grace Van Patten, Victor Cruz, Barbara Danicka, Ronald Peet, Jared Sandler, Elizabeth Marvel, Adam David Thompson, Danny Flaherty, Nancy Ellen Shore, Adam Sandler, Germar Terrell Gardner |
In Theaters: | Oct 13, 2017 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 52 minutes |
Production: | Gilded Halfwing, IAC Films, Netflix |
Available On: | Netflix |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |