Awful Nice
Estranged brothers Jim and Dave must travel to Branson together when their father dies and leaves them the lake home. A series of hilarious mishaps and costly misadventures follow as they attempt to restore the house and rebuild their relationship.
19 March 1984, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
2 March 1955, Ogden, Utah, USA
22 August 1979, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
31 January 1982, Long Island, New York, USA
20 July 1936, Pawnee, Oklahoma, USA
1 May 1984, Florida, USA
19 July 1980, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
2 April 1961, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
1 February 1984, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
24 January 1951, Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
14 November 1982, Brandon, Wisconsin, USA
18 September 1986, Lewisham, London, England, UK
24 October 1966, USA
March 05, 2014
Delivers a steady stream of laughs and an accurate depiction of sibling rivalry, contributing to a funny, freewheeling effort that's missing focus, but finds an unusual personality of its own.
June 21, 2016
Despite some promise, so much is left unexplained or unpacked and it fails to deliver.
March 07, 2014
Rennie and Pumphrey are both engaging, funny actors, but the relentless aggro-idiocy between them will probably only appeal to other twenty-something dudes who behave like sixth-graders.
March 25, 2014
... manages an effective mix of slapstick and sentiment that can't quite sustain itself at feature length.
March 06, 2014
Even when bits go thud, there's a brittle, unsentimental wit about kin's inexplicable tug that's hard to ignore, and the leads - game for some surprisingly sublime bits of physical comedy - eventually wear one's anti-charm defenses down.
March 05, 2014
Well, they're half right. It's awful.
March 04, 2014
The interactions of the two leads are like a finger hitting a single piano note for 90 minutes.
March 14, 2014
While this sibling comedy makes some sharp observations about the push and pull of family relationships, it's also one of those deliberately wacky movies that wears us out with nonstop gags that are utterly unconvincing.
March 06, 2014
In general, the film feels like all setup and no punch line.
