History Film / OurIdiotBrother

''Our Idiot Brother'' (Or ''SayingTooMuch: TheMovie'') is a 2011 comedy starring 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.

* 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 they realise that maybe they've been the bigger assholes in this situation.

* 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 after he's arrested again that they realise that maybe they've been the bigger assholes in this situation.

** He tells his parole officer that he's smoked marijuana since the last time they met, prompting another arrest.
*** This seems to be less idiocy and more just owning up to his actions. Also, by this point, he seemed to prefer going to prison than being with his sisters, having refused to sign the bail.
* WideEyedIdealist: Ned is an idealist in a sea of {{JerkAss}}es and DysfunctionJunction but by the end his idealism has rubbed off on all but one of them.

* SayingTooMuch: The plot of the movie is driven by Ned's inability to keep personal details about his family and himself a secret, letting slip incriminating (and even criminal) information at inoportune moments.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Ned gives one of these to his sisters after taking too much of their crap.

** He tells his parole officer that he's smoked marijuana since the last time they met, prompting another arrest.

* CannotTellALie: Ned doesn't have to be asked; he'll volunteer it.

* HilariousOuttakes

%%* HilariousOuttakes

''Our Idiot Brother'' (Or ''SayingTooMuch: TheMovie'') is a 2011 comedy starring PaulRudd where he plays an organic farmer who gets busted selling marijuana to a uniformed cop (though to be fair, the cop 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.

* BigApplesauce: Where Ned comes to live.

* CannotTellALie: Ned.

* {{Cult}}: Christian's self-help group may be one of these.

* HilariousOuttakes

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Emily Mortimer is clearly not American.
** Steve Coogan's slips at times too

* TheMessiah: Ned's philosophy is to trust everyone and believe they will 'step up and do the right thing'. His entire family (and Billy) are inspired by this and become better people by the end. His sisters describe him as "Loving everyone and everything unconditionally."

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Ned manages to give one of these to his sisters.

** Selling a uniformed police officer marijuana. (though to be fair the cop's tactics were borderline entrapment as Ned is initially hesitant to sell to him, but still a dumb move on Neds 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).

* {{Jerkass}}: Filled with them, most notably Miranda and Ned's brother-in-law. His Ex Girl-friend Janet.

** selling a uniformed police officier marijuana. (though to be fair the cop's tactics were borderline entrapment as Ned is initially hesitant to sell to him, but still a dumb move on Ned'a 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 hold his money while he cleans himself up (the guy doesn't take it but his look on his face is disbelief and he's clearly pondering running off with the money).
** he tells his parole officier that he's smoked marijuana since the last time they met, prompting another arrest.

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

* TooDumbToLive: Ned could qualify based on three scenes. The first is selling a uniformed police officier marijuana. The second is a scene on a subway in New York. He's counting a good chunk of money when he spills something on his pants. He asks the guy sitting next to hold his money while he cleans himself up. The third where he tells his parole officier that he's smoked marijuana since the last time they met, prompting another arrest.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Emily Mortimer is clearly not American.

* ShallowLoveInterest: Ned gets one of these shoehorned in at the last minute.

* 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 starring PaulRudd where he plays a organic farmer who gets busted selling marijuana to a uniformed cop (though to be fair, the cop 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.

-->'''Miranda''': I'm gonna peace you in the side of the fuckin' head you don't give us the dog. \

-->''Janet'': I am not going to stand here and be insulted on my own porch.
-->''Miranda'': I'll insult you right here.
-->''Janet'': OK, I'm a pacifist. I don't play that way.
-->''Miranda'': I'm gonna peace you in the side of the fuckin' head you don't give us the dog. \
-->''Janet'': I'm not going to receive that with anything but love.