Word: brooding
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...trouble cleaning out its chemical toilet, which geysers an astonishing amount of what is gently called "fecal matter" on their first overnight stop. Travis, who is omnicompetent in the practicalities of life on the open road, solves the problem, and the next thing you know he and his brood are trying to sweep the resistant Munros under their protective wing...
...figure in all Suburbia, the thread that weaves between family and community?the keeper of the suburban dream?is the suburban housewife. In the absence of her commuting, city-working husband, she is first of all the manager of home and brood, and beyond that a sort of aproned activist with a penchant for keeping the neighborhood and community kettle whistling ... If she is not pregnant, she wonders if she is. She takes her peanut-butter sandwich lunch while standing, thinks she looks a fright, watches her weight (periodically), jabbers over the short-distance telephone with the next-door neighbor...
BRAD AND ANGIE BROOD WATCH...
...wrong places. This catalog of deceits and embarrassments may not sound particularly hilarious, but, trust me, it is. Baumbach?s sympathy for the all-too-human spectacle of lust pratfalling over itself makes the film as funny as it is painful. The only appropriate response to this lacerating brood - whose troubles make the Saraband family, by comparison, seem like the Andersons from Father Knows Best - is the laughter of shock and compassion...
...Stone family is a stereotypical New England, bohemian-bourgeoisie brood with Craig T. Nelson (“Coach” and, most recently, the voice of Mr. Incredible in “The Incredibles”) as the patriarch and Hollywood’s hip-mom actress Diane Keaton (“Something’s Gotta Give”) as the matriarch...