Film Review – The Adults

Sibling relationships and all the awkwardness and unspoken feelings that go along with them are examined in “The Adults.” Writer/director Dustin Guy Defa doesn’t do the usual routine when it comes to the insecurities of brothers and sisters, offering a more peculiar overview of communication issues and stunted growth. He has a sharp cast in Michael Cera, Hannah Gross, and Sophia Lillis, who inhabit profoundly anxious characters trying to make sense of their connections after many years apart. Defa doesn’t bother with a story, going full steam ahead with these personalities and their journey of behavior, achieving some rather wonderfully bizarre yet entirely universal truths when it comes to the dance of disputes and confession. There’s strangeness to “The Adults,” but also a disturbing truth to much of the movie, with Defa getting into some psychological muck while handling the dark comedy aspects of the writing with skill. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com