5.6
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
Overview
When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. As the brothers and sisters re-examine their shared history and the status of each tattered relationship among those who know and love them best, they reconnect in hysterically funny and emotionally significant ways.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Positive
Judaism: Positive
Viewer Rating
5.6
Overview
When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. As the brothers and sisters re-examine their shared history and the status of each tattered relationship among those who know and love them best, they reconnect in hysterically funny and emotionally significant ways.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film primarily focuses on universal themes of family, grief, and personal relationships, offering a nuanced exploration of individual struggles and growth within a dysfunctional family unit without promoting a specific political ideology or solution.
The movie features a predominantly white cast without explicit DEI-driven recasting of traditional roles. Its narrative centers on the personal struggles of a white, Jewish family, maintaining a neutral to positive framing of traditional identities without significant DEI critiques.
Secondary
This Is Where I Leave You features the matriarch, Hillary, revealing her long-term lesbian relationship. The film portrays Hillary and her partner with dignity and complexity, integrating her sexuality as a natural, affirming aspect of her character. The family's reaction, though initially surprised, is ultimately accepting, contributing to a net positive portrayal of queer identity.
The film portrays the Jewish tradition of shiva as a meaningful framework for a dysfunctional family to grieve and reconnect. While individual characters express irreverence or a lack of personal faith, the narrative respects the cultural significance of the rituals and presents the family's rabbi as a supportive and understanding figure, highlighting the communal value of the faith.
The film "This Is Where I Leave You" focuses on the dysfunctional family dynamics and relationships of the Altman siblings. There are no identifiable transsexual characters or themes present in the narrative, thus the portrayal is N/A.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
This film is an adaptation of Jonathan Tropper's novel. All major characters in the movie retain the same gender as established in the original source material, with no instances of a character being portrayed as a different gender.
The film "This Is Where I Leave You" is an adaptation of Jonathan Tropper's novel. A review of the main characters in both the book and the film reveals no instances where a character's established race from the source material was changed for the screen adaptation.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.7
6.6
Critic Ratings
4.5
4.4
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