A perfect miniature portrait of a specific demographic: People obsessed with doing bits who never turned to the arts. Our The Adults review:
draws a perfect miniature portrait of a highly specific demographic: People obsessed with doing bits, making up songs, and perpetuating their own inside jokes who nonetheless never turned to a life in the performing arts. Eric is first seen puttering around a bland hotel room, setting up his laptop and fussily bringing out a portable speaker as he halfheartedly futzes around with plans during what is clearly a quick visit to his hometown.
Put him next to his sisters Rachel and especially Maggie for a prolonged period, however, and he’s performing accents, characters, and full-fledged Broadway-style songs that would seem mostly inscrutable to an outside viewer.
“Alone together” is particularly fitting for this trio; their parents are both dead, their mom more recently, and Rachel lives in the family home, apparently her mixed-bag reward for caring for her mother toward the end. Maggie still lives in the same semi-upstate New York town; she’s college-aged, but no longer attending.
That’s most of the movie right there: Rachel fumes, Maggie looks alternately adoring and heartbroken, and Eric dodges and fusses his way through an extended visit. He keeps pushing back his departure date because of a weird, nagging insistence on finding local poker games via an old friend he seems to contact entirely because of his poker connection.
It’s a well-honed piece of character writing, as is the amateur-vaudeville world Eric periodically resurrects to curry favor with Maggie. To some extent,
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