People Like Us Review

People Like Us
While delving into his recently decease father's affairs, salesman Chris Pine stumbles upon a family secret that soon changes his life.

by Kim Newman |
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Release Date:

09 Nov 2012

Running Time:

114 minutes

Certificate:

12A

Original Title:

People Like Us

Star Trek writer Alex Kurtzman makes his directorial debut with this feature starring Kirk himself, Chris Pine. In this touchy-feeling family relationships drama, Pine is Sam, an angry young man who discovers his errant father left an inheritance to a sibling he never knew he had, Frankie (Banks). Tracking her down, he befriends her without telling her who he is. D’oh! Banks is brilliant as the bright, brassy alcoholic and Michael Hall D'Addario provides the laughs as her smart-assed son. It’s overlong and caught between two worlds but still a tearjerker with a bit of character.

Thanks to punchy direction from Star Trek writer Kurtzman, this is a cut above your average weepie.
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