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Cast

Michael C. Hall
as Jack

Rainn Wilson
as Joel

Sarah Silverman
as Cheri

Ben Schwartz
as Nathan

Judy Greer
as Laura

Kate Mara
as Meg

Taraji P. Henson
as Mary

Ron Rifkin
as Henry

Lesley Ann Warren
as Marilyn

Alicia Witt
as Amy

Stephen Tobolowsky
as Ephraim

Lewis Black
as Narrator, The Narrator

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Critic Reviews for Peep World

Audience Reviews for Peep World

• Jul 03, 2013

  In "Peep World," misery is nothing new for the Meyerwitz siblings. Jack's(Michael C. Hall) architecture business is foundering badly, just as he is expecting his first child with his wife Laura(Judy Greer). It has taken Joel(Rainn Wilson) eight tries to pass the bar exam and is so deep in the hole that he begs Jack for help on a regular basis. At least, Nathan(Ben Schwartz) is successful in writing a roman a clef about his family, thereby making the life of their sister Cheri(Sarah Silverman), an unemployed actress, even worse. That's all before the annual birthday dinner for their father Henry(Ron Rifkin), a wealthy property developer. In its cringe inducing way, "Peep World" feels like a particularly misguided and crude pilot episode of which the best performances are from those on the periphery, Judy Greer, Guillermo Diaz, Kate Mara & Taraji P. Henson, who know enough not to force things. To be fair, there is one classic meta moment where fiction collides with reality.(Oh wait. Now, I get that other joke and instantly wish I hadn't.) Otherwise, the movie serves as an object lesson as to why one should not use Norman Mailer as a role model and never, ever go to a doctor one finds on Craigslist. Seriously, I don't know what the movie is trying to say, as all of the central characters can simply be written off as screw-ups, even Jack, who has his own secret. If they had been struggling to get anywhere, that would have been a definite improvement and would have grounded the movie in some kind of reality.
  Walter M Super Reviewer
• Jun 13, 2013

  When an author writes an expose about his dysfunctional family, the annual birthday get-together erupts. I liked the premise for this film; it's an opportunity to say something about art, authorship, and familial relationships. But instead of being a round character, at one point, the author has to fuck away a surgically induced hard-on. Each of the characters is given his/her cliched identity, a mold that amounts to a mere type. They're all boring people, and none of the situations is a particularly compelling, identifiable conflict. One brother is pursued by loan sharks, one goes to a peep house, and a sister doesn't like the eponymous novel -- boring, boringer, and boringest. The worst part of the film is that all the lead-up amounts to a climactic scene that is anything but a climax. A bunch of people scream at each other. Ho hum. Overall, this film could have been interesting if the scrapped almost everything in the script.
  Jim H Super Reviewer
• Sep 29, 2011

  A well written film in terms of structure however there wasn't much going on. It was quite bland and predictable. A good cast seems wasted.
  Sophie B Super Reviewer
• Mar 30, 2011

  Joel: Do you think that I'm a failure? Mary: Who said that? Joel: My father; my family; pretty much everyone I know. There are ways to make a dysfunctional-family comedy work. Arrested Development will go down as one of the great comedy television shows of all time, because of the wide range of talent split between all of the different members of the family, the dynamic of those relationships, and how super sharp and hilarious the writing was. Peep World feels like an attempt to recreate the spirit of that sort of show and push all of the similar themes into a story that only spans 90 minutes of screen time. The result is very uneven, as there is a great cast present, but the writing is not nearly as sharp or funny as it needs to be. read more at thecodeiszeek.blogspot.com
  Aaron N Super Reviewer

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