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Nov 23, 2021 · Critic’s Pick. ‘The Humans’ Review: Reasons (Not) to Be Cheerful. Stephen Karam’s film adaptation of his powerful play acquires a supernatural sheen as a family gathers for Thanksgiving ...
Feb 19, 2016 · NYT Critic’s Pick. By Charles Isherwood. Feb. 18, 2016. “Doing life twice sounds like the only thing worse than doing it once,” says the beleaguered paterfamilias of “The Humans ...
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Nov 24, 2021 · “The Humans” will make you thankful that not every Thanksgiving dinner is like the one depicted in this movie. Written and directed by Stephen Karam, who adapts his own Tony-winning 2016 Broadway play, the movie is set on Thanksgiving day in the barely-furnished downtown Manhattan apartment of Bridgid Blake (Beanie Feldstein) and her boyfriend Richard (Steven Yeun).
Sep 22, 2020 · Produced in New York by the Roundabout Theater Company in 2015, “The Humans” was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and the Broadway transfer in 2016 won the Tony Award for best play.
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By Tara Bennett
Updated: Nov 30, 2021 8:33 am
Posted: Nov 29, 2021 10:31 pm
The Humans is available now on Showtime.
The Humans was birthed by writer Stephen Karam in 2015 as a much-heralded Off-Broadway play that was then transferred to Broadway in 2016 and won the Tony. Five years later, Karam has reimagined that same story as a thoughtful and brilliantly acted film, bringing Tony Award-winning actress Jayne Houdyshell along with him to reprise her role as Blake family matriarch, Deirdre.
Set on Thanksgiving day, The Humans is now an overtly existential haunted house story, set entirely within the newly rented but decrepit duplex apartment of Brigid (Beanie Feldstein) and Richard (Steven Yeun) in downtown Manhattan. The couple has invited her parents, Erik (Richard Jenkins) and Deirdre, and grandmother, Momo (June Squibb), from Scranton, PA, along with Aimee (Amy Schumer), Brigid’s sister who is a lawyer in the city. Only a week into the creaky, wi-fi-impared abode, the two floors are sparse and cold, which sets the stage for one heck of a holiday hootenanny!
To be clear, The Humans is horror adjacent in that Karam most effectively uses the language of the genre, from its asymmetrical, claustrophobic framing to the washed-out color palette and jump-scare-inducing sound design, to tell his story. It’s a metaphorical “monster” movie that brilliantly deconstructs the unrealistic expectations we, as humans, bring into the Thanksgiving celebration. It channels our cumulative anxiety about the holiday to commune with our families while often sagging under the heavy weight of achieving pinnacle happiness and perfection while crammed around a table for a few hours. All of that literally oozes out of the apartment, with its peeling plaster, leaking pipes and paper-thin walls, revealing the dysfunction, passive aggressiveness, and secrets that families often drag into the room and eventually can’t ignore.
Led by the masterful Jenkins and Houdyshell, they bring their simmering angst with them as they roll the now dementia-stricken Momo into the awkwardly small halls of the apartment. Erik starts the day distracted while Deirdre clearly tries to be overly pleasant to balance out her cranky husband. Brigid is the sunny, optimist of the Blake family, while Aimee is the sharp-witted problem solver hiding her own issues. Rounding out the collection is Richard, the new(ish) boyfriend still trying to navigate the slippery family dynamics, while softly finding a path to revealing a bit more of himself to Brigid’s family.
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The Humans is a thoughtful and brilliantly acted meditation on family and humanity. Using Thanksgiving as the pedestal for perfection that we all try to achieve once a year, writer/director Stephen Karam and his cast slowly escalate the tension and isolation into a messy familial catharsis that is both potent in its literal and existential outcomes...
Sep 12, 2021 · Brigid (Beanie Feldstein) and her boyfriend, Richard (Steven Yeun), have moved into a shabby duplex in New York City’s Chinatown, and have invited Brigid’s family over to warm the house. Mom ...
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The Humans is a 2021 American psychological drama film [2] written and directed by Stephen Karam in his feature directorial debut, and based on his one-act play of the same name. It stars Richard Jenkins, Jayne Houdyshell, Amy Schumer, Beanie Feldstein, Steven Yeun, and June Squibb. It had its world premiere at the 2021 Toronto International ...
