It gives off the faint bookish whiff of a J.D.
Salinger short story collection.
And what unspools over the next comedically caustic two hours does as well.
Dustin Hoffman and Adam Sandler in ‘The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)'.Atsushi Nishijima/Netflix
The Meyerowitz Storiesworks in large part due to the actor playing that patriarch, Dustin Hoffman.
Baumbach parcels out the story of this strained family in chapters.
wife Maureen (Emma Thompson), a blowsy drunk in a billowy muumuu.
Stillers Matthew shows up in chapter two a Los Angeles financial advisor who happens to be the favorite son.
Parents can be well-meaning monsters.
Their children can be resentful, scarred victims.
And its never too late for forgiveness or at least a resigned sort of belated truce.
There can be an undeniable grace in all of that.
After all, these are timeless themes.
Theyre well-told inThe Meyerowitz Stories, but theyve also been told many times before by others, including Baumbach himself.B
