Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts
A fortyish couple hook up with some twenty-somethings, envy their freedom, bohemianism, alter their lives to become more like them. Done as a mocking comedy with cutting undertones. Some of this was amusing, some was not. The 'lesson' that people should act and think their age is a pretty thin reed on which to hang a 1 1/2 hour film.
Can't fault the players here...they did what was asked as well as they could. The problem was the central conceit; at some point we all realize the grass really isn't greener in the neighbor's yard. These characters were old enough to know that.
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