![]() ![]() ![]() What I guess I didn't count on was the fact that while this is a very solid movie, it still exposes the difficulty of adaptation. When I saw that This is Where I Leave You was to become a film, I knew that if nothing else, it would reflect many of the same elements that make his fiction so much fun. His dialog, his wisdom, his humor and outrageous situations have always seemed destined to be made into films. After having read all of Jonathan Tropper's novels, it is hard to avoid the thought that they seem to have been written for the screen. For her, nothing is secret but for the adult children, the book stands as an obvious lasting scar. The mother, played by Jane Fonda, is an over sharing woman who published a book over 25 years earlier about their childhoods and their family secrets. Judd, played by Jason Bateman, is fresh off the shocking revelation that his wife has been cheating on him with his boss, while his 3 siblings are wonderful mess of their own problems. ![]() From the novel by Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I leave You is the story of how a dysfunctional family gets together for a week to conduct the Jewish ritual of sitting Shiva for seven days after the passing of their father, for whom this was his dying wish. ![]()
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