Our Idiot Brother

Our Idiot Brother (2011)

December 1, 2025

Everybody has one—the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz, Miranda and Natalie, that person is their perennially upbeat brother, Ned. But as each of their lives begins to unravel, Ned’s family comes to realise that Ned isn’t such an idiot after all.

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)

Pippa Lee feels dislocated when she and her husband Herb move from Manhattan to a suburban retirement community. He’s older than she, they have two offsprings who are young adults, and the daughter hardly speaks to Pippa. Pippa tells us about her life, in long flashbacks, starting with her birth to a mom who was a social dynamo and addicted to pills. As a teen, Pippa moves out and lives a hippie life until meeting […]

Petulia (1968)

An unhappily married socialite finds solace in the company of a recently divorced doctor. When she sees him at a hospital fund-raiser, newlywed San Francisco socialite Petulia Danner, who has been married to naval engineer David Danner for six months, seems determined to have an affair with soon to be divorced physician Dr. Archie Bollen, who has been married to his wife Polo for close to ten years, their marriage which many saw as being […]