Our Idiot Brother (2011) on Netflix
Ned sells produce at a farmer's market, where a police sting lands him in jail. Paroled, he moves in with his mother and his three sisters.
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- Rotten Tomatoes70%
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Plot summary
Ned grows organic vegetables on a farm with his girlfriend Janet and his dog Willie Nelson. He slips a uniformed officer a small bag of marijuana at a farmer's market and takes money for it, and he is arrested. Paroled after eight months, he finds Janet with a new boyfriend, Billy, and Janet refuses to let him work on the farm or take the dog. Ned moves in with his mother Ilene, who holds a weekly family dinner, where his three sisters gather: Miranda, a journalist; Natalie, a comedian who lives with her girlfriend Cindy; and Liz, a housewife married to the documentary filmmaker Dylan. Ned asks to stay at Liz's apartment, where he looks after his nephew River and helps Dylan with his film.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Our Idiot Brother (2011)
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- Producer Saraf said the film would set a record for how quickly it came together: four months passed from the time he first read the script to the time the shoot wrapped.
- Jesse Peretz and his sister Evgenia, who had written a screenplay together before but could not finance it, drafted a more commercial story with characters in their 30s and created the main character with Paul Rudd in mind.
