ADULT BEGINNERS (Ross Katz) Rating: NNN
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When his IPO falls apart, a New York City hotshot (Nick Kroll) goes home to New Rochelle to crash with his pregnant sister (Rose Byrne) and her husband (Bobby Cannavale) and winds up playing nanny to their three-year-old.
Adult Beginners feels very much like something executive producers Jay and Mark Duplass might knock out over a long weekend. It’s a story we’ve seen a few dozen times before, but first-time director Katz tells it with a nice focus on character.
And he supports his leads by casting skilled comic performers – among them Jane Krakowski, Bobby Moynihan, Mike Birbiglia, Joel McHale and Jason Mantzoukas – so every scene pops just a little more than it might have otherwise.
See our interview with Nick Kroll here.