This Is Where I Leave You
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Movie Captures: “This Is Where I Leave You”
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Videos: CONAN
Timothy Olyphant Relaxes With Conan O’Brien & Andy Richter On ‘CONAN’: ‘Justified’ Actor Talks Jason Bateman, Tina Fey & Jane Fonda While Promoting ‘This Is Where I Leave You’.
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“This Is Where I Leave You” Interview
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“This Is Where I Leave You”: Trailer & New Image
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FIRST LOOK: ‘This Is Where I Leave You’
Source: EW
Remember that line from The Godfather: “Never tell anybody outside the family what you’re thinking”? In This Is Where I Leave You, it’s probably best not to tell the family, either. The bittersweet comedy about troubled siblings who reunite for their father’s funeral is like a group hug crossed with a battle royal.
“We need a new term for the tone. It’s not a dark comedy—because it’s not that dark. But it’s an emotional comedy,” says Tina Fey, who plays the pushy sister to three equally neurotic and combative brothers: Corey Stoll, Jason Bateman, and Adam Driver. Jane Fonda costars as their prying psychologist mother, who will either unite her estranged family or destroy it trying.
Based on the 2009 best-selling novel by Jonathan Tropper (who wrote the screenplay), the film became the passion project of director Shawn Levy (Date Night, the Night at the Museum movies), who saw it as a chance to explore more intimate and dramatic territory—with actors interested in the same.
“Jason, Tina, me, we’ve done a lot of comedies, but we’re playing this a lot more naturalistically,” Levy says. “Almost every day, someone from the crew says, ‘Jesus, that scene freaked me out. It’s exactly like me and my brother.’ Or ‘That’s what I went through when my dad died’ or ‘…when my wife and I got separated.’”