Step Brothers (2008)

In Step Brothers, two lazy, underemployed fortysomething men -- Brennan Huff (Will Ferrell) and Dale Doback (John C. Reilly) -- still live at home with their parents, enjoying a life of perpetual adolescence devoid of ambition and responsibility. This state of bless (to them) is disrupted when their respective parents -- Robert (Richard Jenkins) and Nancy (Mary Steenburgen) -- fall in love and get married. Suddenly, Brennan and Dale find themselves step brothers.

They start off truly loathing each other, with Dale having the upper hand since they're living in his dad's house. There are certain ground rules set by Dale, in particular that Brennan must stay out of his Beat Laboratory (the room where his drums are kept). They almost kill each other one night, but there's nothing quite like a common enemy to bring two warring sides together.

That person would be Brennan's hugely accomplished younger brother Derek (Adam Scott), a smarmy charmer who made Brennan's life hell as a child and is still doing it thirty years later. When Derek becomes the apple of Robert's eye, Dale grows to hate him, too, and soon these two step brothers discover there is more they have in common -- a love for John Stamos, karate, music, and vintage t-shirts for starters -- than not. When Richard and Nancy's marriage begins to splinter from the strain of supporting these two lazy oafs, Brennan and Dale will have to shape up and grow up fast if they're to save their parents' marriage.



Cast: Will Ferrell,John C. Reilly,Mary Steenburgen,Richard Jenkins,Jason Davis
Director: Adam McKay
MPAA Rating: Rated R for crude and sexual content, and pervasive language.
IMDb User Rating: 6.9/10

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