What "This Is Where I Leave You" Gets Right About Grief

What "This Is Where I Leave You" Gets Right About Grief

I first watched This Is Where I Leave You years ago, before I had any real relationship with loss. I remember being struck by how different it felt from other movies about death. It wasn’t reverent or dramatic nor did it treat grief as something sacred or untouchable. It felt awkward, mundane, almost intrusive — which, at the time, felt novel but distant. I liked it, but I didn’t recognize myself in it. I rewatched it recently because I remember…