A new review from The Movie Snob.
The Skeleton Twins (B-). I wasn’t sure if this movie was really going to be my cup of tea, but I just like the heck out of star Kristen Wiig. She was such a lovable basket case in Bridesmaids, and such a sweet naïf in Paul. Well, she’s not so lovable in this tale of adult-sibling dysfunction. As our movie opens, Milo (Bill Hader, Adventureland), a fairly flamboyant gay man, is unsuccessfully attempting to commit suicide. After that, his equally depressed twin sister Maggie (Wiig) drags him away from L.A. to stay with her and her amiable husband Lance (Luke Wilson, The Family Stone) for a while in some small town in New York. Milo and Maggie haven’t spoken for ten years, so it’s tough for them to live under one roof together, but they sort of try to help each other work through their issues in their dysfunctional, sabotaging sort of way. Hader and Wiig are good actors, so I enjoyed it pretty well, but there have been better movies about the sometimes difficult relationships between adult siblings. I’d recommend You Can Count on Me, starring Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo, or The Savages, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and, again, Laura Linney.