Synopsis
The story follows what happens when a child psychologist surprises his girlfriend by showing up at her political family's annual get-together at their Sag Harbor vacation home only to find them desperately in need of therapy.
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Cast
- Craig RobinsonWade Walker
- Kerry WashingtonGrace Peeples
- David Alan GrierVirgil Peeples
- S. Epatha MerkersonDaphne Peeples
- Tyler James WilliamsSimon Peeples
- Kali HawkGloria Peeples
- Diahann CarrollNana Peeples
- Melvin Van PeeblesGrandpa Peeples
- Ana GasteyerMayor Hodge
Recommendations
- 67
The A.V. Club
If Peeples had more bite, it might pass for an underhanded critique of its producer’s work. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
While Peeples follows a very predictable course as a romantic comedy and does not break any ground in that genre of filmmaking, this movie is more engaging than you might expect. - 60
Variety
Peeples may appropriate its entire premise and plot structure from “Meet the Parents,” but its heart is suffused with French cinema. - 60
Village Voice
While she doesn't quite achieve the screwball zaniness she strives for, Chism deserves commendation for crafting a farcical work that feels like it concerns real characters. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
Director Tina Gordon Chism keeps the innocuous class-meets-crass jokes bubbling, and the actors are amiable, but Peeples often seems to want to turn these characters into benignly goofy role models. Maybe that's why the basic comic collision never explodes. - 40
Time Out
Defined by "Three’s Company"–grade humor, this attempt at male-anxiety cringe-comedy is little more than a sitcom writ large that — courtesy of several awkward transitional fades to black — already feels constructed to accommodate commercial breaks. - 40
Arizona Republic
The elements are all there. They’re just thrown together in haphazard fashion. A funny scene here, an attempt at a touching scene there, toss, repeat randomly, the end. - 38
Slant Magazine
Tina Gordon Chism's film collapses into a series of clumsy improvisatory sketches, tied up in cheap, risibly sentimental catharsis.
