A pair of impoverished sisters face bankruptcy and the foreclosure of their late father’s beloved diner. So Macey (Toni Collette) and Savanna (Anna Faris) hasten to the bedside of their wealthy, terminally ill Aunt Hilda (Kathleen Turner) in an attempt to inveigle their way into the inheritance. There are two problems. One is the fact that their cousins, perma-tanned sex pest Richard (David Duchovny) and ferocious high achiever Beatrice (Rosemarie DeWitt), have the same idea. The second is the fact that Aunt Hilda is a toxic, judgmental troll whose favourite hobby seems to be firing spite at her nieces.
The impressive cast list notwithstanding, this is a dispiriting kind of comedy that draws its humour from humiliation, greed, desperation and people being needlessly shitty to each other.
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