Humans, The

[Opens Nov. 24 in theaters and on Showtime.] When an wannabe composer (Beanie Feldstein) in Manhattan and her boyfriend (Steven Yeun) host Thanksgiving in their new, creepy, creaky, dilapidated duplex in Chinatown in Stephen Karam's critically acclaimed, well-written, somber, dark, bittersweet, realistic, 108-minute film based on Stephen Karam's Tony-award-winning, one-act play which is marred by an often difficult to understand soundtrack, tensions ensue and anxiety escalates as her middle-class parents (Richard Jenkins and Jayne Houdyshell), her ill lawyer sister (Amy Schumer) who broke up with her longtime girlfriend, and Alzheimer's-afflicted grandmother (June Squibb) arrive from Pennsylvania for the holiday and the apartment closes in around them as life and all its foibles are discussed.
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