Steinesongo Too many fans seem to be blown away

Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Moonstrike9 The director made the hugest mistake adding incestuous tension into this movie. It made the whole thing unenjoyable and unrelatable. Since this movie was based on the director's real life experience with his sister, it only makes me wonder. Yuck.

srdjan_veljkovic Don't expect something spectacular here, but, what you do get is a well executed portrayal of a certain group of people and their life choices and consequences that said choices brought. But, not only that, it also shows how one can deal with such things. Like when the son says to his mother "I will never agree with you, but I love you".The casting is very well done. None of these actors are great actors, but they are good actors and are very well cast, so this works out great.Though at times it seems the story revolves (too much) around the recently departed father of the main character, it actually does put him in the right place. In the lives of all involved, he was a big presence. The fact that maybe he was a too big of a presence is also saying something about the characters themselves.I watched this movie with my teenage niece and she liked it, so, I guess that it's also not as "adult" as it would seem at first.

drpakmanrains This comedy-drama contains what the great critic, Roger Ebert, used to call the "idiot plot", where a secret is involved that, if revealed early on, would shorten the film to a half hour instead of nearly two hours. Nevertheless, "People Like Us" is ultimately a very satisfying and enjoyable film. Chris Pine plays a single man about 30 who learns his father has just passed away, and has left him a package with $150,000 to deliver to a sister he didn't know he had, from an affair. He seeks her out, while really wanting the money for himself, and finds she has an 11 year old wise guy son from one of her many previous one-nighters. The film really takes off from there, with a fine cast featuring Elizabeth Banks and Michelle Pfeiffer, and has some wonderful moments, as well as some hard to believe ones. But in the end, I believe most viewers will be glad they saw it and consider it a good, or even excellent film.

tigerfish50 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.