People Like Us

A touching, well-acted, factually inspired, star-dotted (Philip Baker Hall, Mark Duplass, and Barbara Eve Harris) film in which a smooth-talking, wheeler-dealer, New York corporate barterer (Chris Pine), who along with his greedy boss (Jon Favreau) is in trouble with the FTC, heads to Los Angeles with his girlfriend (Olivia Wilde) to support his distraught mother (Michelle Pfeiffer) after the death of his estranged music producer father and then is shocked to learn that he has a down-on-her-luck, bartending sister (Elizabeth Banks) who is raising a lonely, smart, troubled, 11-year-old son (Michael Hall D'Addario).
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