Our Idiot Brother (2011) - Movie Details

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Release Date:	August 26, 2011
On DVD:	November 29, 2011
Genre:	Comedy
Director:	Jesse Peretz
Writer:	Evgenia Peretz, David Schisgall
Cast:	Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer, Rashida Jones, Hugh Dancy, Kathryn Hahn, Shirley Knight, Janet Montgomery, Steve Coogan
Studio:	The Weinstein Company
Running Time:	95 minutes
MPAA Rating:	Rated R for sexual content including nudity, and for language throughout

Every family has one: the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz (Emily Mortimer), Miranda (Elizabeth Banks) and Natalie (Zooey Deschanel), that person is their perennially upbeat brother Ned (Paul Rudd), an erstwhile organic farmer whose willingness to rely on the honesty of mankind is a less-than-optimum strategy for a tidy, trouble-free existence. Ned may be utterly lacking in common...

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A pothead hippie idealist who was stupid enough to sell drugs to a uniformed police officer is released from jail and integrates not-so-seamlessly into the lives of his three sisters in Our Idiot Brother, a surprisingly thoughtful comedy that doesn't stir up a lot of laughs but is genuinely enjoyable nonetheless.

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