This is an comedy about Jake, a young entrepreneur who loses everything after a fire in his company. Jake becomes homeless. He has to leave Manhattan and move in with his pregnant sister, brother-in-law and a 3-year-old nephew in the suburbs and becomes their nanny
It's not as sharp or witty as you'd expect from a Duplass Brothers product ion but Adult Beginners is still another decent outing in their ever-impressive canon.
"Adult Beginners" is one of those agreeable small-scale movies that doesn't seem particularly ambitious; its only goal is to charm, and it does so, irresistibly.
Kroll is too limited with what he can do with the personality he either has or creates for the film. (I'll go with the former). Twenty lashes with film stock and back to TV for him.
