The Skeleton Twins
First screened in September 2014
Director: Craig Johnson. Cast: Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Luke Wilson, Ty Burrell, Boyd Holbrook, Joanna Gleason, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Cliff Moylan. Screenplay: Craig Johnson and Mark Heyman.

Twitter Capsule: What a welcome if sobering surprise. Like The Savages with deeper, darker currents. Hader, Wiig both impress.

VOR:   Enters an existing groove in the market for funny-gloomy sibling stories, and visuals certainly don't distinguish it, but unusually committed to the messes its characters make and re-make.



Photo © 2014 Roadside Attractions/Venture Forth/
Duplass Brothers Productions

Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: B


Awards:
Sundance Film Festival: Best Screenplay

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