Murphy never seems to age and has one of his best film outings in recent years, subtly playing a proud father who thinks he knows what is best for everyone - and that would not be Ezra. Hill’s return to full-throated comedy is a welcome one, and he knocks it out of the park here as the Sidney Poitier as it were to Murphy’s Spencer Tracy.
landmarks to add flavor, from Roscoe’s to Randy’s to Capitol Records and much more. Los Angeles is gorgeously shot (Mark Doering-Powell is the cinematographer) and Barris frequently provides interstitial scenes of L.A. There is no fat on this at all, virtually every line lands with precision, and the two-hour-ish comedy flies by. At its heart though, You People makes a strong case for seeing each other first and foremost as human beings inhabiting the same planet together.īarris (creator of Black-ish, Grown-ish) makes a dazzling feature directorial debut with a razor-sharp script he and Hill wrote.
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It sets up a series of scenes as the young couple announce their marital plans and realize it isn’t easy merging families with cultural, religious and racial differences in this day and age. The centerpiece dinner bringing both sets of parents together with Ezra and Amira is one for the ages, particularly when the conversation turns to Akbar’s love for Louis Farrakhan (“He has a great vibe,” Ezra pipes in at one cringe-worthy moment). Being clued in to rapper Xzibit turns out to be comic fodder for just some of the jokes Barris and Hill provide in bulk in this culture clash. On the other side, Ezra fails to impress Amira’s dad, an architect named Akbar ( Eddie Murphy), a Kufi-wearing Muslim married to Fatima (wonderful Nia Long), both disapproving of their daughter’s involvement with Ezra who tries hard to prove he understands Black culture. Both are well intentioned but wholly embarrassing for Ezra, whose younger sister Liza (a pitch-perfect Molly Gordon) is more drolly hip to the situation. The father, Arnold ( David Duchovny), is a podiatrist with a talent for saying whatever comes to mind. Jewish mom who wants the best for her son and whose liberal attempts at relating to his new girlfriend are hilariously woke and awkward (“It will be wonderful to have Black grandkids”). Shelley Cohen ( Julia Louis-Dreyfus), a Westside L.A. Sparks eventually fly after a lunch date, and they hook up, soon moving in together. In an amusing rideshare mix-up he meets rom-com cute with Amira Mohammed (a luminous Lauren London). Plotwise, Hill, whose comic timing has never been used to better effect, plays Ezra, a tattooed, blond-streaked-haired Jewish son from Brentwood who is working in a miserable job in finance, but has his heart in doing his “Mo And E-Z Show” podcast with his good Black friend (Sam Jay).
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It also happens to be a glorious love letter to Los Angeles like no other movie in years. This one marches to its own beat and has its feet firmly planted in the present - for better or worse.
Keep in mind this is not a remake of that film, or a more recent take on parents at odds over their kids’ romantic choices, i.e, Meet The Parents.
Netflix Backlash Over AI Product Manager Job Post That Offers Up To $900K Amid Actors & Writers Strikes Seeking AI Protections With a packed house the laughter was so continuous and loud for You People it was hard to hear a lot of the lines. Ironically, I saw it this week at its world premiere at the same Westwood Village theater where I saw Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner all those years ago. With antisemitism and racism back on the rise in 2023 America, however, the concept of an interracial/interfaith marriage, Black and white, Jew and Muslim, could not be more timely or needed, and in co-star Jonah Hill and director Kenya Barris’ whip-smart screenplay is also a knock-you-out-of-your-seat laugh riot.
The idea was switched in a 2005 Bernie Mac-Ashton Kutcher remake that all those years later did not have the same impact. Of course, back then it was a major social issue and even had trouble booking some Southern U.S. In a nutshell, the brilliantly hilarious, pertinent and wickedly smart new movie You Peopleis in some ways a new age Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, that landmark 1967 Tracy-Hepburn-Poitier Oscar-winning comedy about the effect an interracial relationship has on the parents of the young couple.
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