In Dustin Guy Defa’s film, a trio of siblings sing and dance their way to reconciliation.
“The Adults” is a movie about what happens to born performers when they’re no longer performing—and what happens to their artistic impulses when they have no stage.Genre is a cursed thing. Dustin Guy Defa’s new movie, “The Adults,” isn’t really a musical, but the performances of music and dance that figure in it are both more dramatically essential and more distinctively realized than those in many films commonly thought of as musicals.
The elder of Eric’s sisters, Rachel , who works at a local radio station, is the family’s reality principle: when the siblings’ mother died, five years ago, Rachel dealt with the resulting practicalities and held on to the house, where she now lives . The younger sister, Maggie , a recent college dropout—course requirements cramped her creativity, she says—works in a café and is planning to quit without a clear sense of what she’ll do next.
Eric left home about eight years ago and now lives in Portland. He never says what he does for a living, but describes himself as a frequent traveller who therefore gets good deals on hotels—that’s why he’s not staying with either sister, he says—and free rescheduling from airlines. Eric’s coyness regarding his way of life is a strategy on Defa’s part, allowing viewers to assume that Eric is an itinerant small-time gambler who has come home only as a last resort.
The siblings’ backstory of loss and estrangement is dispensed in cleverly calculated tidbits of dialogue that are among Defa’s more conventional moves. The centrality of performance to that story emerges gradually. Having breakfast in a diner, they notice the shapely legs of a longtime waitress , and her appearance spurs Eric and Rachel to bat around some comic riffs.
At its core, “The Adults” is a movie about what happens to born performers when they’re no longer performing—and what happens to their artistic habits and drives when they have no ready outlet, no stage. Namely, they become deceptions, bluffs, and shtick. Eric, in particular, remains desperate to get laughs, but for all three the ingrained habit of passionately crafted theatrical artifice proves to be their most authentic way of relating to one another.
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