The Meyerowitz Stories

After separating from his wife, unemployed Danny Meyerowitz moves in with father Harold, a retired Bard College art professor and sculptor, and his third wife, Maureen, a pleasant if foggy alcoholic. Danny has a younger sister, Jean, and they have a younger half-brother, Matthew. Danny is close to his daughter, Eliza, who is starting college at Bard as a film student. Eliza shows one of her sexually provocative films to her family, who try hard not to show they are taken aback and instead compliment its energy and production values. Some of Harold's work has been selected as part of a faculty group show at Bard, but Harold refuses to be part of a group show. Danny and Harold attend the MoMA retrospective of a friend and contemporary of Harold's, the more successful L.J. Shapiro. There neither father nor son feels comfortable; Harold is stung by signs that the art world has forgotten him and chooses to literally run away down the street. Danny meets Shapiro's daughter, his childhood friend Loretta, but is forced to leave to chase after Harold.

Harold's younger son Matthew, a successful financial advisor to rock stars on the other side of the continent in Los Angeles, is in New York on business and meets Harold for lunch with an accountant friend. They try to counsel Harold to sell his Manhattan home and the sculpture stored there, since Harold and Maureen can barely pay the townhouse's utilities. Harold tells them that whether to sell the house will be a private family decision and stalks out. At a third restaurant he criticizes the prices, but orders lavishly once Matthew says he'll pay. Soon he decides he has been insulted and robbed as well, and the rapidly regressing Matthew is inveigled into another scene involving running, chasing and embarrassment. The two bond slightly in self-righteous indignation. That evening they pay a visit to Matthew's mother, Harold's second wife Julia, who has since married a man named Cody, a wealthy philistine. Julia tells Harold and Matthew that she is sorry she was not a better mother to Harold's three children; her directness makes them very uncomfortable and they can't leave fast enough. Matthew resents Harold for his preference for a life of art over money. "I beat you!", he screams at his father's departing Volvo.

Harold is diagnosed with a chronic subdural hematoma. He enters hospital, where as the days pass his children learn to manage his care themselves, after first leaning on Harold's doctor and nurse to take that responsibility. Outside the hospital Jean tells her brothers that the family friend who happens to be visiting Harold at the moment exposed himself and masturbated in front of her when she was a child. Matthew and Danny let her walk away from them, then attack the friend's car with mounting exhilaration. At Bard to represent their father at the faculty group show, Matthew and Danny get into a fight, of sorts, on the quad; later, bloody and crying, each makes drug-addled remarks in Harold's place, mostly about themselves, and Matthew ends up breaking down emotionally during his speech. As Harold convalesces at Maureen's place in the country (the townhouse having been sold, despite Matthew's change of heart), it dawns on Matthew and Harold that Harold's favorite sculpture "Matthew", a lifelong object of resentment for Danny and Jean, was probably based on his feelings for the child Danny. Danny, who up to now has been solicitous toward his father, refuses to care for him while Maureen is away and accepts his brother's offer of a trip to California, but he forgives him for his past failures as a dad. On the way to the plane he meets Loretta, now single, and she suggests they go together to the screening of a film Eliza has made. In the basement of the Whitney Eliza uncovers the sculpture lent by her grandfather, long believed to have been lost.

• Adam Sandler as Danny Meyerowitz, Harold's son. Currently unemployed and separated from his wife but musically gifted.
• Ben Stiller as Matthew Meyerowitz, Danny's half-brother and Harold's son. A successful financier who lives across the country and is currently separated from his wife.
• Dustin Hoffman as Harold Meyerowitz, a moderately successful sculptor and retired college professor. Has been married four times, although the first marriage was annulled.
• Emma Thompson as Maureen, Harold's fourth wife, an alcoholic.
• Elizabeth Marvel as Jean Meyerowitz, Danny's sister and Matthew's half-sister. Harold's daughter. Works for Xerox.
• Grace Van Patten as Eliza Meyerowitz, Danny's daughter. A film student who makes provocative short films.
• Candice Bergen as Julia, Harold's third wife and Matthew's mother.
• Adam Driver as Randy, one of Matthew's clients.
• Sigourney Weaver as herself.
• Judd Hirsch as L.J. Shapiro, a successful artist and Harold's old friend.
• Rebecca Miller as Loretta Shapiro, L.J.'s daughter.
• Matthew Shear as Gabe, Matthew's colleague.

Principal photography on the film began on March 7, 2016 in New York City.[9][10][11] Hospital footage was filmed at Phelps Memorial Hospital Center in Sleepy Hollow, New York and Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. The scenes of Bard College were actually filmed at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY. Production concluded on May 9, 2016.[12]

During production, the film was known by the working title Yeh Din Ka Kissa, "The Tale of This Day" in Hindi.[13]

Adam Sandler garnered acclaim for his performance, with many critics calling it one of the best of his career.

In April 2017, Netflix acquired distribution rights to the film.[14] It had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 21, 2017,[15] where it received a four-minute standing ovation.[16]

The film was released in select theaters and streaming on Netflix on October 13, 2017.[17]

Although Netflix does not publicly disclose box office results of its films, IndieWire estimated that The Meyerowitz Stories made around $20,000 in its opening weekend, a figure the site noted as impressive considering it was released simultaneously streaming.[2]

Accolades

Dustin Hoffman, Noah Baumbach, Emma Thompson, Ben Stiller, and Adam Sandler at the Cannes Film Festival screening of The Meyerowitz Stories in 2017

Year	Award	Category	Recipient(s)	Result	Ref.
2017	Boston Society of Film Critics	Best Cast	The cast of The Meyerowitz Stories	Won	[24]
2017	Cannes Film Festival	Palme D'Or	Noah Baumbach	Nominated	[25]
		Palm Dog Award	Einstein	Won	[26]
2018	Broadcast Film Critics Association	Best Actor in a Comedy	Adam Sandler	Nominated	[27]
2018	Evening Standard British Film Awards	Best Supporting Actress	Emma Thompson	Nominated	[28]
2017	Gotham Independent Film Awards	Best Actor	Adam Sandler	Nominated	[29]
2017	Hollywood Film Awards	Hollywood Comedy Award	Adam Sandler	Won	[30]
2018	Humanitas Prize	Feature – Comedy	Noah Baumbach	Nominated	[31]
2018	Golden Tomato Awards	Best Comedy Movie 2017	The Meyerowitz Stories	5th Place	[32]
2018	Satellite Awards	Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture	Dustin Hoffman	Nominated	[33]

• The Meyerowitz Stories at IMDb
• The Meyerowitz Stories at Rotten Tomatoes
• The Meyerowitz Stories at Metacritic
• The Meyerowitz Stories at Netflix