54. Your Sister's Sister

On the one year anniversary of his brother's death, Jack (Mark Duplass) drinks too much and makes an ass out of himself.  His best friend Iris (Emily Blunt), who also use to date Jack's brother, is the only one who is able to cheer him up.  Turns out the last year has been really rough on Jack.  So she tells him he needs to take a sabbatical.  She tells him to ride his bike to her father's island house where he can be only with his thoughts and nature to try and figure his life out.  

He takes her advice, but when he gets there he finds out he is not alone.  Iris's sister Hannah (Rosemarie Dewitt) is also there on sabbatical.  Hannah just broke up with her girlfriend of seven years and is finally free to do whatever she wants.  And after drinking a bottle of tequila together, what she wants to do is Jack.  Jack goes along with it.  She puts a condom on him and about three thrusts later its over and they fall asleep.

Iris gets the day off of work and decides to head out to the house and see how Jack is doing.  She has no idea that Hannah is there or that they just slept together.  Although Jack is a horrible lier, she doesn't even suspect anything happened between them.  Maybe the fact her sister is a lesbian has something to do with it. As the weekend goes on the three learn more about each other.  For example, Iris tells Hannah that she is in love with Jack but doesn't know if she should say anything that might ruin the friendship.  Then Jack finds out that Hannah has desperately wanted a baby for the past couple of years.  

While Iris and Hannah go for a walk, Jack digs the condom out of the garbage and fills it up with water, just to make sure.  And to his horror, water starts pouring out everywhere.  Meanwhile, Hannah confesses to Iris about sleeping with Jack.  Iris runs back to the house to confront Jack and in doing so Jack tells Iris about the holes in the condom which makes Hannah spill the beans about Iris being in love with Jack.  Whew.  That was a terrible run on sentence but I don't care. 

Yet again.  Another movie with limited locations and actors, which makes you really focus on the story and not so much about the surroundings.  They did put a new twist on the whole, in love with my best friend story line.  Not too many of them end with the possibility of one being the the father of your lesbian sister's child.  I know this is a minor detail but why did Emily Blunt keep her accent?  Rosemarie Dewitt didn't have an accent?  But after awhile I stopped caring about that and just enjoyed the movie.  At times it did seem a  little long, but I feel like the characters were believable and I loved the ending.  That's not sarcasm.

Rating: ***

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