The Easy Way Out
Patrick, a travel agent in his early 30s, lives with Arthur, an immigration lawyer; but for a long time, Patrick has been sleeping on an air mattress on the floor of their bedroom. His younger brother, Tony, plans to marry his high school sweetheart but is having an affair that is far more satisfying than his relationship with his fiancee. Their older brother, Ryan, is divorced, living at home and working at his parents’ hopelessly unprofitable men’s clothing store. And McCauley soon makes achingly clear that the parents’ marriage is far from happy.
This film feels like a quiet, uncomfortable gathering with relatives you barely know. It’s a portrait of lives adrift, filled with unspoken resentments and the awkwardness of shared, mundane disappointment. A low-key, observational comedy about the messiness of ordinary existence.
