History Film / OurIdiotBrother

* {{Jerkass}}: Filled with them as Ned's filled gets by on selfishness and lying and his ex-girlfriend Janet (holds onto his dog out of spite). While not quite as bad and they eventually get better, Ned's sisters aren't exactly paragons throughout the movie either.

* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Janet has mastered the technique of being an asshole while being confrontational such as denying her boyfriend his dog without showing him malice.
** Although not to nearly the same degree, Ned's sisters know how to get passive-aggressive as well.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After living with his neurotic sisters and their blame for messing with their lives, he finally loses his temper and tells that their selfishness is hurting themselves and bringing everyone around them down.

* TitleDrop: Provided by Creator/ZooeyDeschanel.

** He tells his parole officer that he's smoked marijuana since the last time they met, prompting another arrest.[[note]]This one may be less idiocy and more just owning up to his actions. By this point, he seemed to prefer going to prison than being with his sisters, having refused to sign the bail.[[/note]]

%%%** Although not to nearly the same degree, Ned's sisters know how to get passive-aggressive as well.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: Janet breaks up with Ned, kicks him off the farm, and refuses to let him have his dog, presumably out of spite, and she's a bitch.

* NiceGuy: Exaggerated Trope. Ned is nice to his dysfunctional family, the people he meets in the city, and even his PsychoExGirlfriend is met more with frustration than actual anger.

''Our Idiot Brother'' (Or ''SayingTooMuch: TheMovie'') is a 2011 comedy-drama directed by Jesse Peretz, starring Creator/PaulRudd, Creator/ElizabethBanks, Creator/ZooeyDeschanel, and Creator/EmilyMortimer.

** He tells his parole officer that he's smoked marijuana since the last time they met, prompting another arrest. [[note]]This one may be less idiocy and more just owning up to his actions. By this point, he seemed to prefer going to prison than being with his sisters, having refused to sign the bail.[[/note]]

* RomanticFalseLead: Lady Arrabella seems like the DesignatedLoveInterest, but as soon as Ned asks her out, she turns him down and is never seen again, thus keeping the plot focused on the family.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While snarky, Ned's parole officer Omar Coleman is one of the few people nice to Ned.

** On a subway in New York, Ned is counting a good chunk of money when he spills something on his pants. He asks the guy sitting next to him to hold his money while he cleans himself up. The guy doesn't take it, but the look on his face is disbelief and he's clearly pondering running off with the money.

''Our Idiot Brother'' (Or ''SayingTooMuch: TheMovie'') is a 2011 comedy-drama directed by Jesse Peretz, starring Creator/PaulRudd, Creator/ElizabethBanks, Creator/ZooeyDeschanel, and Emily Mortimer.

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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After living with his neurotic sisters and their blame for messing with their lives, he finally loses his temper and tells that their selfishness is hurting themselves and bringing everyone around them down.

Ned Rochlin is an organic farmer who gets busted selling marijuana to a uniformed cop (the cop said had a rough week) and spends eight months in jail. After getting out and evicted from his ex-girlfriend's farm, he now has to live in Manhattan with his three sisters while he works different odd jobs to get enough money together to rent a goat barn. There's also a subplot of him trying to get his dog back from his ex-girlfriend.

* ActualPacifist: Janet claims to be this, making her an extremely rare villainous example.

* {{Jerkass}}: Filled with them, most notably Miranda, Ned's brother-in-law Dillon, and his ex-girlfriend Janet. While not quite as bad and they eventually get better, Ned's sisters aren't exactly paragons throughout the movie either.

** Steve Coogan's slips at times.

* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Janet has mastered this. See ActualPacifist.
** Although not to nearly the same degree, Ned's sisters know how to get passive-aggressive as well.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: Janet. She breaks up with Ned, kicks him off the farm, and refuses to let him have his dog, presumably out of spite. And she's a bitch.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Ned's parole officer Omar Coleman. While snarky, he is one of the few people nice to Ned.

Ned Rochlin (Rudd) is an organic farmer who gets busted selling marijuana to a uniformed cop (the cop said had a rough week) and spends eight months in jail. After getting out and evicted from his ex-girlfriend's farm, he now has to live in Manhattan with his three sisters while he works different odd jobs to get enough money together to rent a goat barn. There's also a subplot of him trying to get his dog back from his ex-girlfriend.

''Our Idiot Brother'' (Or ''SayingTooMuch: TheMovie'') is a 2011 comedy starring Creator/PaulRudd where he plays an organic farmer who gets busted selling marijuana to a uniformed cop (the cop said had a rough week) and spends eight months in jail. After getting out and evicted from his ex-girlfriend's farm, he now has to live with his three sisters in Manhattan while he works different odd jobs to get enough money together to rent a goat barn. There's also a subplot of him trying to get his dog back from his ex-girlfriend.

!! The following tropes appear in Our Idiot Brother

* {{Jerkass}}: Filled with them, most notably Miranda, Ned's brother-in-law Dillon, and his ex-girlfriend Janet.

%%* CannotTellALie: Ned doesn't have to be asked; he'll volunteer it.
* CoolBigSis: Natalie even though she's younger, she seems to the closest and nicest to Ned.

* {{Jerkass}}: Filled with them, most notably Miranda, Ned's brother-in-law, and his ex-girlfriend Janet.

* {{Jerkass}}: Filled with them, most notably Miranda, Ned's brother-in-law, and his Ex Girl-friend Janet.
* NeverMyFault: Ned's sisters. While Ned's habit of SayingTooMuch does cause genuine problems for them, many of those problems wouldn't exist in the first place if it wasn't for their own selfishness, neuroses and tendency to lie their way out of tricky situations. Nevertheless, they find it easier to just blame Ned rather than face the possibility that they might have some blame for the ways their lives have worked out.
* NiceGuy: Exaggerated Trope. Ned is nice to his dysfunctional family, the people he meets in the city and even his PsychoExGirlfriend is met more with frustration than actual anger.

** Although not to nearly the same degree, Ned's sisters know how to get passive aggressive as well.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: Janet. She breaks up with Ned, kicks him off the farm, and refuses to let him have his dog presumably out of spite. And she's a bitch.

* RomanticFalseLead: Lady Arrabella seems like the DesignatedLoveInterest, but as soon as Ned asks her out she turns him down and is never seen again, thus keeping the plot focused on the family.

** Selling a uniformed police officer marijuana. (The cop's tactics were borderline entrapment as Ned is initially hesitant to sell to him, but it's still a dumb move on Ned's part). His parole officer assumes he's mentally retarded because of it.
** On a subway in New York Ned is counting a good chunk of money when he spills something on his pants. He asks the guy sitting next to him to hold his money while he cleans himself up. The guy doesn't take it but the look on his face is disbelief and he's clearly pondering running off with the money.
** He tells his parole officer that he's smoked marijuana since the last time they met, prompting another arrest. [[note]] This one may be less idiocy and more just owning up to his actions. By this point, he seemed to prefer going to prison than being with his sisters, having refused to sign the bail. [[/note]]
* WideEyedIdealist: Ned is an idealist in a sea of {{Jerk Ass}}es and DysfunctionJunction but by the end his idealism has rubbed off on all but one of them.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Janet keeping the dog. Ned has no place to live, and spends the movie crashing with various family members. It's a lot more stable for a dog to live on a farm than with someone who is effectively homeless.[[note]]Granted, Janet is the REASON that Ned is homeless...[[/note]]

* ActorAllusion: Ned mentions the movie Anchorman. His actor Paul Rudd was in it.

* TitleDrop: Provided by ZooeyDeschanel.

* NeverMyFault: Ned's sisters. While Ned's habit of SayingTooMuch does cause genuine problems for them, those problems wouldn't exist in the first place if it wasn't for their own selfishness, neuroses and tendency to lie their way out of tricky situations. Nevertheless, they find it easier to just blame Ned rather than face the possibility that they might have some blame for the ways their lives have worked out.

* NeverMyFault: Ned's sisters. While Ned's habit of SayingTooMuch does cause genuine problems for them, those problems wouldn't exist in the first place if it wasn't for their own selfishness and neuroses. Nevertheless, they find it easier to just blame Ned rather than face the possibility that they might have some blame for the ways their lives have worked out.

* HeelRealization: Ned's eventual outburst to his sisters about their selfishness visibly shocks and upsets them. But it's about the point that Ned decides he'd rather spend time in prison than be released into their custody when they try to post bail that it sinks in that maybe they've been the bigger assholes in this situation.