This is a promo clip from Everybody’s Fine, starring Robert Deniro, Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, and Kate Beckinsale. A remake of a 1990 Italian film, it’s about a widower whose children all cancel on him for Christmas so he decides to go visit them. It’s kind of Four Christmases in reverse, except the true reverse of Four Christmases would probably be really good.  ThePlaylist didn’t seem to like it much.  I haven’t seen it, but judging by this clip… hey, this is a promotional clip, right?  Like, it’s supposed to make you want to see the movie?  Absolutely nothing happens in this.  If this isn’t the most boring minute and ten seconds of the film, there must be another scene where someone reads a book.

Everybody’s Fine stars Robert DeNiro as a widower whose grown children (Sam Rockwell, Kate Beckinsale, Drew Barrymore) all cancel on him for Christmas dinner, so he embarks on a hijinks-filled road trip to find out what their hilariously quirky problems are.  Supposedly it’s a remake of Guiseppe Tornatore’s Stanno Tutti Bene (Italian for… wait for it… EVERYBODY’S FINE), written and directed by Waking Ned Devine‘s Kirk Jones.  But it looks basically like Four Christmases from the parent’s perspective.  i.e., sort of generic and lame.  But you never know if that’s the movie’s fault or if the trailer editor guy just didn’t know what he was working with.  Wait, you mean no one gets hit in the crotch?  How am I supposed to let people know this is a comedy?  And where the hell am I supposed to put the record scratch?  I’m telling you, this is a fool’s errand.  Someone fetch my “sproing” sound.

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Drew Barrymore will join Robert DeNiro, Kate Beckinsale, and Sam Rockwell in Alpaca Lips Now, a screwball comedy set in ancient Peru.  Just kidding, the movie’s actually Everybody’s Fine, a Kirk Jones-directed remake of 1990 Italian roadtrip movie Stanno Tutti Bene.

But my idea was still more believable than Drew Barrymore’s acting.  ZING!  *shuffle shuffle, jazz hands!*

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