The Land of Steady Habits

While I usually don't like movies like this - family dramas that don't really go anywhere - I actually liked this one. It has relatable characters and moments of genuine humor

I totally loved that movie and find it worthwhile watching it!

Excellent, nuanced film with great acting, writing and direction! Wish there were more of this quality.

It is a dark film, but very well done. A midlife crisis turns into a web of lives being affected. It is very realistic and helps people grasp and understand the emotional roller coaster when one experiences this phase of life. When one looks at their life and begins to wonder what it is all about. I enjoyed it.

Relentlessly bleak. Not really poignant and the characters don't show much growth or find a path forward in life.

One of the better movies about suburban ennui. Holofcener understands that each character's unhappiness is deeper than mere dissatisfaction.

I just rewatched this movie. Love the subtle humor. The midlife crisis is relatable.

Great realistic film about, in my opinion, how difficult it is to stay alive within.

I stumbled across this movie last weekend and it literally made my day. Great humor but it also gets into some serious issues and almost brings you to tears before you are laughing again.

A mediocre and derivative dark comedy (without the comedy): Its a story we have seen a thousand times before and we are all bored of. 1 hour and 38 minutes of over privileged people complaining and looking wistful about how trapped they feel in their huge houses, and by their non-existent financial problems. I give it one star for some excellent acting, and I will watch anything with the amazing Edie Falco in it, but even she can't salvage a plot from this tedious script. Anders, our incredibly obnoxious and suffocatingly boring protagonist, has left his wife and escaped the rat race by retiring early from a career in finance. He occasionally makes reference to having financial problems himself but still spends his days wandering about buying crap, shagging anyone who isn't disgusted by his peter pan complex, and generally being a waste of space. His financial concerns must be pretty dire because towards the end of the movie he decides to go and stay in hotel for a few weeks, leaving his condo empty, because he needs some space. This movie also fails the Bechdel test. The very first conversation that takes place in this movie between two female characters is about Anders. Helene (his ex-wife) is complaining about him, and her friend Sophie interjects that she must be having sex because she looks pretty. Seriously. I'll just remind you at this point that this is a dramedy from 2018 and not a romcom from 1998. The only slightly interesting bit of storyline comes when Anders has a hand in the death of Charlie, a troubled, drug addicted teenager, who he could have helped but didn't. Charlie is the only character in the movie that is actually interesting but he is never really given a chance to be a fully rounded character and is really only there as a plot device. In the last scene of the movie Anders is sitting down for dinner with a woman, whom he had been incredibly mean to earlier in the movie, yet for some inexplicable reason she didn't run a mile. He smiles across the table at the pet turtle that Charlie had given to him for safe keeping, and the message we are supposed to get is what? He is a good guy, he is going to change, he has learnt something. There is no evidence for any of that and quite frankly who cares ........