Though the film is largely driven by Cera’s knowing, unsparing performance, both Gross and Lillis are also given plenty of room to develop nuance. Eric anxiously keeps saying he is going to cut his trip short, but once he falls back in with some local poker games, his compulsive gambling drives him to stay longer, even if that’s not exactly how he explains it to his sisters. Slow-burning resentments, unspoken issues and unprocessed grief immediately bubble up between them. Rachel still lives in the house that used to belong to their dead mother, while Maggie lives nearby. All that can be a lot when you’re just trying to run an errand.Įric ( Michael Cera) returns to upstate New York partly to see an old friend’s new baby and partly to visit his two sisters, Rachel ( Hannah Gross) and Maggie ( Sophia Lillis). The film keenly captures the awkwardness of returning to your hometown as an adult - the mix of emotions that arises from revisiting old places and seeing former friends, causing one to take stock of the distance traveled (or not). ![]() ![]() That’s not a problem with writer-director Dustin Guy Defa’s latest film, “The Adults,” a warm, wry dramedy that finds fresh resonance and insights from the story of three siblings each trying to move forward in their own way. Stories of families and their complicated dynamics spring from a seemingly bottomless well, and can come to feel similar and uninspired.
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