Ben Stiller has teamed up with Wes Anderson’s co-writer Noah Baumbach! The film is entitled Greenberg and from the trailer, it plays as a bittersweet midlife crisis comedy-with-heart. It co-stars Rhys Ifans and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Baumbach’s previous film The Squid and the Whale was a superb character study, so expect more of the same! The dialogue looks sharp, especially the retort to the comment that youth is wasted on the young with: “I’d go further. I’d go: life is wasted on people”. And it’s nice to see Ben Stiller acting in more adult fare after running around with CGI monsters!

Synopsis:

“Roger Greenberg [Ben Stiller], single, fortyish and at a crossroads in his life, finds himself in Los Angeles, house-sitting for six weeks for his more successful/married-with-children brother. In search of a place to restart his life, Greenberg tries to reconnect with old friends including his former bandmate Ivan [Rhys Ifans]. But old friends aren’t necessarily still best friends, and Greenberg soon finds himself spending more and more time with his brother’s personal assistant Florence [Greta Gerwig], an aspiring singer and also something of a lost soul. Despite his best attempts not to be drawn in, Greenberg and Florence manage to forge a connection, and Greenberg realizes he may at last have found a reason to be happy.”

Tags: Ben Stiller, Greenberg, Noah Baumbach