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Absolutely brilliant

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

3/23/18. Yay! Finally, a dysfunctional family you can love! I was truly surprised that I enjoyed this movie so much! Pine is Sam, and he is one messed up dude who has a girlfriend (Wilde) who has almost given up on him for being selfish and self-serving. He learns, after his father died, that he actually has a half sister, who has a son. He reaches out, but in a very roundabout way, to learn more about Frankie (Banks). Eventually they must come to terms that they are family. Definitely catch this. Pine shows his acting chops in this one, and Banks is wonderful as well as the rest of the supporting cast.

When this hit the theaters, it did not look appealing at all.. This is not a typical mainstream movie.. I could understand how this movie did not do well in theaters.. The premise is a hard sell.. heck I don't even know why after all this time I decided to rent this.. It was sitting in it's netflix sleeve for a week, I flipped through all the options of what is new on iTunes.. it was raining and we didn't want to go out.. I threw in the movie and was having second thoughts but then within the first five minutes you get the tone of the movie, this is one of the movies where you can tell how good or bad it is by how it's setup in the beginning, without giving away anything, the writing, acting, direction, cinematography was excellent.. an extremely well made movie.. I hate writing but this is one movie that deserves to be seen and it seems only word of mouth will help it get seen more, you really have to just go into this movie blind.. it'll surprise you...

One sweet and romantic view in the foundation of family's relations, "People Like Us" does a great job in showing just how important being a united family is...Using a great cast and script this movie is a promising story that will touch your heart and will make you change your mind about the way you see and understand family.Chris Pine is in great shape as regards his acting skills but Elizabeth Banks is the one who stands out and steals all the applause...Michelle Pheiffer is -as always- great in catching her role as the "one who made the choice" and regarding the directory that is average and sometimes fails to follow the great acting or soundtrack.Anticipating for more movies like this one i would say that "People Like Us" will be hard reach by anyone as it does a great job in combining drama and comedy all in a wonderful moving way...

A cynical salesman called Sam learns that one of his dubious deals has imploded into looming lawsuits, unemployment and debt, shortly before he's informed about the death of his prosperous estranged father. He returns to the family home too late for the funeral, and makes some grudging attempts to repair the strained relationship with his mother. A day or so later, Sam meets with the family lawyer to receive disappointing news about a meager inheritance, before being entrusted with a substantial cash bequest intended for his father's secret illegitimate daughter and her young son. Torn between keeping the money for himself and handing it over, Sam decides to become acquainted with his half sister without revealing their common parentage.Unfortunately the opportunity to make something of this promising idea gradually slips away in a series of scenes that become increasingly trite and sentimental. Despite the efforts of a talented cast, minor misunderstandings are constantly being leveraged into artificial melodramas until the predictable moment of redemption finally arrives. It's all formulaic enough to turn one into a cynical salesman.