Movie review: In 'After Class,' Justin Long plays a New York professor spending a week reconnecting with his family.
Ah, families: can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em. And so it goes again in “After Class,” the funny, warmly authentic tale of Josh Cohn , an adjunct creative writing professor in a bit of hot water, whose fractious New York clan is holding a vigil for its beloved dying matriarch, Josh’s grandma Agatha .
We’ve seen many versions of this kind of story before, but there’s something so spot-on and involving about the film, written and directed by Daniel Schechter — and performed with such a lived-in rhythm by its talented cast — that it proves surprisingly refreshing. Schechter nails the impatient, beleaguered dynamic that can occur among disparate family members who love and need one another more than they may admit. And if the lively, at times immature Josh takes center stage here, his neurotic sister Jackie , tense brother David , divorced parents Diane and Jeff and the endearing Agatha are all equally vivid, relatable creations.
The movie also deftly, evenhandedly captures the perils of political correctness as Josh’s lecture-hall misstep puts him on the firing line with students and administrators. A late-breaking showdown pitting Josh, Jackie and David against Jeff and his awful second wife is a beaut.
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