It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

How is this movie getting good user reviews? It's terrible. It starts out okay and you think that you might be in for a surprise but then it just turns into every cliché available! Bad, bad, bad ending. The characters are walking stereotypes, no originality, and Imogene is super unlikeable! Just one example is her outrage at her mother renting out her room although she has never been home since she left high school many years earlier. She is utterly self absorbed and judgmental. Another thing I strongly dislike is a fat shaming incident near the end where to get back at someone who was unkind to Imogene she is told her butt looks huge in her dress and we're supposed to think this puts her in her place. This script was written by a woman! Come on woman, break out of that crap! It had potential but did not fulfill it at all.

A movie whose script is so bad you have to wonder how it ever got made. It would easily be one of the worst movies that came out last year if not for the charming lead performance by Kristen Wiig. The performance isn't that much different from her work in Bridesmaids, but she was so good there I really didn't mind revisiting it. Wiig plays Imogene (which was the original name of the film), a failed playwright in New York City who has to move back in with her mother (Annette Bening) in Atlantic City after a failed suicide attempt. The trailer promised a funny movie about a messed up adult woman dealing with her nutjob mom, but Bening's character pretty much falls by the wayside. Again, one has to wonder why an actress of Bening's status signed onto this project. There's some stuff about Bening's new boyfriend (Matt Dillon), an eccentric man who claims to be a secret CIA agent. Most of the movie has Wiig falling for younger man Darren Criss. He's not bad, but the romance isn't that interesting. There's also Wiig's socially inept brother, Christopher Fitzgerald. This character is the movie's greatest failing. He's obsessed with hermit crabs and has built his own shell. The inane quirk comes in hard from left field, and any genuine emotions the film wants to have (there's a decent plot line about Wiig and Fitzgerald trying to find their long-lost father, Bob Balaban) are sabotaged. There are some amusing moments, and Wiig makes it mostly watchable, but it never builds to anything. The climax is based 100% on the film's worst, most quirky elements, and it's insanely dumb.

Perhaps because my father was an arsehole too, or my mother a surface whore, and my brother a retard, and I was delusional about my talents, by this movie touched a fiber during the visit to the father. After decades of being "dead", after being the center of the lives of these two adults what haven't graduated from emotional kindergarden, they find the filthy rich father to whom they have attached "happiness." The only thing he can offer, however, is money, a lot of money. Omogene has to get up to vomit at his suggestion, leaving the residence with her inventor brother without further explanation. These people are poor, the kids, mother, etc. Extremeley poor. Yet the notion, well, just go see it. This is a good movie in the serious way, and a funny one too. I am so glad I saw it.

Imogene (Kristen Wiig) is a failing writer with a dysfunctional family. She can't write anything good. She loses her job. And her boyfriend dumps her. What else can she do but to fake a suicide and call her boyfriend to rescue her? The problem is he never comes, and she gets put into the psych ward for the suicide attempt. Her irresponsible mother (Annette Bening) is put in charge of her for 72 hours. She is plunged back into her dysfunctional family and a secret is revealed.Imogene is not a fun character, and does way too many stupid things. It's kind of funny sometimes like trying to run away in the hospital. But other times, it's just stupid like stealing the library book. There is a couple of funny moments, but Imogene is too self destructive. It is a limited comedy with limited laughs. I love Kristen Wiig, but this is not a funny comedy. There are a lot of crazy characters in wacky situations, but it never gets hilarious.