What makes husband-and-wife directing team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' hilarious debut such a great family film isn't that it's suitable for the whole family (it's not), but that it speaks a simple truth about what it means to be part of one. No matter how screwed up they may seem, sometimes they're all you've got. And no family could appear more dysfunctional than the Hoovers of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Patriarch Richard Hoover (Greg Kinnear), a motivational speaker who hopes to make his fortune marketing a new success formula he calls the "Nine Steps," preaches a "be in it to win it" philosophy, but is himself the very model of failure. He's bankrupt, and if...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
101 mins