The Skeleton Twins
Director: Craig Johnson
Year Released: 2014
Rating: 1.0
Estranged siblings Milo (Bill Hader) and Maggie (Kristen Wiig) come together after both of them attempt to end their lives - even when 'reunited,' they individually make more bad life choices, like Milo trying to rekindle a relationship with a past lover (Ty Burrell) and Maggie cheating on her dutiful husband (Luke Wilson) with a SCUBA instructor (Boyd Holbrook). Basically a depressive slog about Daddy and Mommy Issues (their father committed suicide; their mother is a New Age flake) with the 'improv' moments by both leads coming across as forced: the actions taken by both characters are consistently ill-advised so that by the film's close it doesn't feel like anything is better for them (arguably, it's even worse). It might have helped if Hader's character wasn't written as a cliché: he's playing a slightly less flamboyant version of his Saturday Night Live character Stefan (at least Stefan isn't a dreary disaster: too many clubs with midgets and talking fire hydrants to frequent!).
