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List Price: $28.98 | | Label: FIRST LOOK PICTURES
Salesrank: 33106
Released: October 21, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Morrie (Matthew Perry, Friends) is the keeper of all things family related, including his siblings. In this comedic foray into sibling relationships, Morrie's little brother Jay (Ben Foster, 3:10 to Yuma, X-Men: The Last Stand) is beyond peculiar, homeless and humorously, but clinically, depressed. His beautiful sister Ida (Ginnifer Goodwin, Big Love) is a promiscuous insomniac and sometime photographer that is starved for attention. Morrie's wife Betty (Lauren Graham, Gilmore Girls) has waited patiently for seven years for their hard work to pay off so they can start a family. Morrie's life is unraveling. As his family's antics infuriate his boss and neighbor, his dreams of success are quickly destroyed. Morrie gets a wake-up call and he comes to realize that the people who really care for him will stand by his side no matter what.
Birds of America Reviews:
The title is misleading 
2009-04-07 - Matthew Perry is an excellent actor and anything he stars in is great....Disfunctional familys are more the norm today than ever before...Love is the only thing holding them together...
A quirky family
2008-11-30 - A quirky family trying to hang onto their sanity struggles to be there for one another, even as they are each emotionally falling apart. Mathew Perry stars as the sibling that had to grow up too fast after his dad has an 'accident' (or did he?) and his mother dies, leaving him to care for his younger siblings at the age of eighteen. His early struggles leave him rigid and fearful of change, or standing up for himself. When his strange sister and unbalanced brother come to stay with him his control over his life unravels so far that he may never be able to pull it together again. A look at unique and bizarre characters in this story of a family flailing along, trying to hold their heads above water and nearly taking each other under in the process.
Chrissy K. McVay - Author
Classic Structure, Mediocre Content 
2008-11-24 - I love Matthew Perry, but he needs someone to help him pick better films. I like films about dysfunctional families, but this movie was a sub-par example of the genre. This movie had the elements of a promising film but the content of the scenes was not clever, humorous, or perceptive enough. (Though there is one scene that sticks in my memory involving smoking marijuana that I thought was authentic/original/cool.)
Instead of this, if you haven't seen it, see The Safety of Objects, a film that my subconscious keeps returning to months after seeing it.
Downhill After the Titles 
2008-11-21 - The title is the best thing about this stinker. Sounds like a new age novelist dispensing second rate wisdom. And what we get is third rate wisdom. Poor Matthew Perry must raise his young siblings after dad offs himself and mom konks out. Sis, Ginnifer Goodwin, is a you know what and Ben Foster wanders around like a dazed holy man. The mentally ill are supposed to be smarter than us in these films. Send the local DPA more of your tax money because these losers need to be locked up for sure. They're nuts.
The scene of liberation where Matt Perry has to do something really awful to his daffy neighbors lawn, jeech, embarrassing, awful, so uncool. Couldn't he just poison the dog?
Birds of America is another winner for Matthew Perry 
2008-11-10 - Its really great to see that Matthew Perry from Friends is still hard at work. This is a really strong movie. I can totally relate to the family situation and the whole thing is so heartfelt. Also loved Hillary Swank and Ginnifer Goodwin.
