Chris Messina shows up for a good ten seconds of screen time, and Anna Kendrick does her cameo in stride, but they don't add anything to the story besides showing that Tim isn't a hermit. In this film there are two central characters, but there's also a large ensemble cast who do nothing but throw off noise. To do this he often focuses between two and four characters. Swanberg eschews traditional storytelling and rhythm in order to delve into the inner psyche of the subjects covered in his films. The rest of the film sees both Tim and Lee try to find themselves in the company of others, as they attempt to piece together what they want from life.I mean, that's the interpretation that I came up with in watching this film. When Lee leaves to spend time with her family Tim invites a group of friends over, and though Lee has stated that he shouldn't dig anymore, he and his friends do anyway, and find quite a bit of evidence. The husband, Tim, digs around the property and finds a bone and an old gun.
The wife, Lee, is a yoga teacher and one of her clients is letting the family stay at her vacation home for two weeks. The film follows a married couple, played by Johnson and Rosemarie DeWitt, who are having a hard time coexisting after the arrival of their son Jude.
He often operates with a cast that he has worked before, such as Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, and Melanie Lynskey.The film's plot is actually based on events in Jake Johnson's own life. His films often start with a simple outline for the plot, with some tragic thirtysomething characters, and then the dialogue is mostly improvised by the actors themselves. With films like "Happy Christmas" and "Drinking Buddies," he has a distinct voice among the indie set.
Joe Swanberg is an actor who has become a seminal figure in the mumblecore movement of the past ten years.
Wish They Had Dug Up the Bones of a Better Movie By the time Lee and Tim come back together at the end of the weekend, they may have a different understanding of their relationship and their life together with Jude. Meanwhile, Lee has needed this weekend away from her husband, and time away from Jude, Grandma and Pop Pop, who have agreed to babysit, to re-energize herself and evaluate her current life, which she feels is not her own. Max, however, may have other interests in digging besides finding buried things. The mention of his find in the woods leads to some of the people at the house being immersed in his speculation along with him, Max in particular who seems the most interested. Instead of focusing on the taxes, Tim uses the opportunity of Lee being away to hang out with some buddies, who in turn invite some other friends to the house. On their first weekend at the house, Lee decides to leave Tim on his own for the weekend to complete their income tax return, which he has long put off, while she and Jude go to visit among others her mother and stepfather, and her sister Squiggy and her family, neither who she sees often. As such, Lee convinces Tim to drop the subject. Tim telephones the police, who tell him they can do nothing unless an actual body is found. He believes the bone could be a human one, and that there could be a murdered dead body buried in the hills in the vicinity of where he found these items. The house sit starts with an unusual event: Tim finds on the property in the wooded hills just beyond the swimming pool a gun and a bone. Married couple Lee and Tim, a part-time yoga instructor and a public school physical education teacher respectively, jump at the opportunity to sit at the secluded Los Angeles Hills house of an actress acquaintance for two weeks as a mini-vacation for them and their three-year-old son, Jude.