Highly-praised ensemble movie which riffs on that indie stalwart: the
dysfunctionality of well-off white middle-class people with no
perceptible problems except being incredibly irritating
collections of banal one-liners. Generational conflict, social
embarrassment (revolving around food, of course), sibling rivalry
and the sex war play themselves out in their shallowest form, as a family
travels to the city to find an absent son... in the arms of his (shock,
horror) male lover. Cue snide jokes. Tone? Parker Posey’s whiny voice.
Horn factor? Campbell Scott’s smarmy adulterous author.
