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Release Date: July 25th, 2008

DVD Release Date: December 2nd, 2008

R|1 hr 35 min

Plot Summary
Brennan Huff (Will Ferrell) and Dale Doback (John C. Reilly) have one thing in common: they are both lazy, unemployed leeches who still live with their parents. When Brennan's mother and Dale's father marry and move in together, it turns the overgrown boys' world upside down. Their insane rivalry and narcissism pull the new family apart, forcing them to work together to reunite their parents.

Cast: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Richard Jenkins, Mary Steenburgen, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn, Andrea Savage, Rob Riggle

Director: Adam McKay

Genres: Comedy

Production Co: Apatow Productions, Mosaic Media Group

Distributors: Sony Pictures Entertainment

Keywords: Growing up, House, 2000s, Marriage, Transformation, Father, Hilarious, Mother, Brother

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  • 40
    Kirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood Reporter

    The only thing that can explain middle-aged men acting like 6-year-olds is mental retardation, and there's nothing funny about that. The idea of middle-aged actors playing adolescents isn't much funnier. Put it this way: Such an idea does not make for an inexhaustible source of comedy. show more

  • 75
    Steven ReaPhiladelphia Inquirer

    While Ferrell and Reilly are great together, hatching harebrained schemes that have no basis in reality, part of the unexpected treat of Step Brothers is watching Jenkins and Steenburgen sink to such blithely immature levels of rude and crude comedy. show more

  • NA
    Joe MorgensternWall Street Journal

    There's a good subject for satire here, the extended adolescence of American kids. But satire presupposes maturity, or at least some perspective. The movie's calculation is that its subjects and audience share the same point of view. The results are truly ghastly. show more

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