The Skeleton Twins
Description
A near tragedy reunites long-estranged twins Maggie (Kristen Wiig) and Milo (Bill Hader) after a decade apart. While Maggie stayed in their New York hometown, became a dental hygienist and married athletic nice guy Lance (Luke Wilson), Milo moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting and is reeling from a breakup with his boyfriend. Back together in Maggie’s house, the once close siblings are talking again but it is a prickly, tentative truce. SNL alums Hader and Wiig spread their dramatic wings in Craig Johnson’s dysfunctional family tale that leavens downbeat moments with warmth and hilarity. As the reason for the mutual rancor gradually reveals itself and the siblings find new reasons to fight, they also begin to remember how they used to share everything: a tight relationship with their playful but troubled father; mutual contempt of their self-involved, New Age guru mother Judy (Joanna Gleason); and a wicked sense of humor. Watching Hader and Wiig embody this troubled twosome as they rediscover one another and attempt to repair their frayed bond is a delight. Milo and Maggie are both a mess—he is given to bouts of self-loathing, she can’t bring herself to admit to Lance that they disagree on some fundamental issues in their marriage—but in each other they just might find the key to fixing what is broken. –Pam Grady
Craig Johnson’s directing debut was True Adolescents (2009). His second feature, The Skeleton Twins, which he wrote with Mark Heyman, won the Sundance Film Festival’s Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.
Film Details
Language English
Year 2013
Runtime 90
Country USA
Director Craig Johnson
Producer Stephanie Langhoff, Jennifer Lee, Jacob Pechenik
Writer Craig Johnson, Mark Heyman
Editor Jennifer Lee
Cinematographer Reed Morano
Music Nathan Larson
Cast Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader
Print Source Roadside Attractions/ stephanien@roadsideattractions.com