Peep World

What would you do if your sibling wrote all your dirty secrets in a bestselling novel?  Hopefully make a movie version as amazing as Peep World.

I love Peep World, I love everything about Peep World, from the Lewis Black narrations, the cast, the stories, the premise in its entirety, and the title (seriously, say the title a couple times and tell me you don't feel amazing afterward).  I love Peep World because everyone is familiar with the concept of a dysfunctional family, and this movie is that concept personified.

The Meyerwitz family is getting together once again for their father's birthday. What goes on behind the close doors of a seemingly normal family is exposed and the family is up in arms. Nathan's (Ben Schwartz) book written in truth about each family member's personal life, as much as they'd like to deny it.  Jack (Michael C Hall) is the oldest Meyerwitz, whose marriage is on the rocks, job in the gutter, and stress level through the roof.  In order to cope Jack frequents porno booths.  Joel (Rainn Wilson) is the black sheep of the family, no job, borrows money, and in debt, a "loser" by most definitions.  Lastly, Cheri (Sarah Silverman), the only Meyerwitz daughter, and only one who actually likes their father.  Cheri is the most angered by Nathan's book for depicting her as spoiled, slutty, and "bitchy," and is in the process of suing her younger brother.  Nathan has issues himself and a erection dance destroys his book reading.  Henry Meyerwitz, the man of the hour, the father of the feuding children, celebrates his birthday and pisses his entire family off.  The characters are all very different, thrown together by only their last name, and their interactions are worth the wait.

Peep World is both comical and witty but has a serious emotional lesson about love, acceptance, and forgiveness.  If the book were a real book I'd read and enjoy that too.  This movie made me appreciate my own family and our minor dysfunctions, yet if Lewis Black would narrate our fights I'd gladly except all the bull-- that comes along with it.

What I took away: my family isn't so bad (considering), and if my dad treated me like Henry does his children, I'd lose my shit too.

Overall Review: MUST WATCH!