Phillip Adam Driver and Robert Altman

Robert Altman: The film may try and speak Altmanese but something gets lost in translation. Instead it does something much more basic but equally satisfying. Once it gets past trying to emulate Robert Altman, it presents a funny and sad glimpse at the inner works of a very dysfunctional but loving family, according to CTV. Returning to upstate New York for the funeral he is forced to sit Shiva with his family, his over-sharing mom, a bestselling psychologist with fake breasts and a loose tongue Jane Fonda and three siblings, married mom Wendy Tina Fey , practical Paul Corey Stoll and Phillip Adam Driver , a free spirit who brings his much older girlfriend Connie Britton and In the novel "This is Where I Leave You" by Jonathan Tropper the family last name was Foxman. For some reason it was changed to Altman for the film, which, perhaps, was done to subtly infer what kind of film it wants to be. It a multi-character comedy with shades of drama and pathos, which, by definition makes it, in film critic shorthand, Altmanesque. Jason Bateman leads the large ensemble cast as Judd Altman, a successful radio producer who comes home one afternoon to find his wife Abigail Spencer in bed with his boss. His perfectly constructed world falls a part, sending him onto a tailspin that is only compounded by the death of his father. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.