Edward Norton stars as Bill Kincaid, an Ivy League philosophy professor and a superstar in his field who's being courted by Harvard. Bill's cultivated New England veneer hides his rural Oklahoma roots. As a young man he fled his small town and his family, including his hippie mom (Susan Sarandon) and twin brother Brady (also played by Norton), and has never looked back. News of a family crisis lures Bill back to his hometown, where he's reunited with Brady, who, despite being the smarter of the pair, never left home and has contented himself with becoming a high-tech hydroponic pot farmer. It's not long before Bill's been ensnared in Brady's well-intentioned but sketchy machinations, and the film veers abruptly from a quirky city mouse/country mouse family comedy into something darker and less easily categorizable.
Director:
Tim Blake Nelson
Year:
2009
Cast:
Edward Norton, Keri Russell, Susan Sarandon
Classification:
16
Certification:
VL