Reel Review: Peep World is an upcoming American comedy film directed by Barry W. Blaustein and written by Peter Himmelstein. It stars Michael C. Hall, Rainn Wilson, Ben Schwartz, Kate Mara, Alicia Witt, Taraji P. Henson, Stephen Tobolowsky, and Sarah Silverman. The movie was released last March 25, 2011.
What’s Inside: The movie talks about Jack Myerwoods (Michael C. Hall), the responsible son, Cheri (Sarah Silverman) a would-be actress and singer-songwriter, Nathan (Ben Schwartz), a successful writer, and Joel (Rainn Wilson), the black sheep of the family who has been to rehab three times and is constantly in legal trouble, come together to celebrate their father’s birthday after Nathan publishes a novel that exposes the family’s most intimate secrets- that is also being made into a movie that’s filming outside Cheri’s window. The four must come to terms with their dislike of each other for their father’s sake and for the sake of getting on with their lives.
Wrapping It Up: Peep World stops at mildly amusing, a level it reaches primarily because of Sarah Silverman. Silverman’s uncontained seething goes way over the top, but the comedian knows her way around phony self-righteousness. In truth, this familial expose movie doesn’t drive much else in the plot. If the members of the Meyerwitz family have enough internal conflicts to drive a novel, they have more than enough to drive a light sitcom feature like “Peep World” on their own. Oh, and let’s not forget the particularly flat lighting throughout.