Given its fun cast, I really wanted to like PEEP WORLD. But I found it dreadfully depressing instead, both for its mordant tone and, well, pure badness. The Myerwitz family, around whom the film revolves, are thoroughly unlikable, neither Sarah Silverman nor the big dinner scene at the end work, and while Lewis Black seems like the perfect choice for voiceovers, his narration often feels like overkill here. The action all takes place on Henry Myerwitz's (Ron Rifkin) 70th birthday, during which his four grown children each grapples in their own way with the recent and widespread publication of the family’s secrets.
Each of the four siblings complains endlessly, and rarely in a way that’s amusing. Jack (Michael C. Hall) runs a failing design firm and is discovered masturbating at a porn shop called Peep World by his pregnant wife (Judy Greer). His oblivious, sneering ass of a brother Nathan (Ben Schwartz) is "the voice of a generation" and newbie author of the best-selling novel Peep World, a humiliating tell-all at the heart of each Myerwitz’s angst that’s being made into a movie. (And making for one too many invocations of this film's title.) The middle son Joel (Rainn Wilson) is billed as the black sheep, unemployed, lacking in self esteem and a perpetual drain on Jack's finances. Yet he still manages to attract Mary (Taraji P. Henson), a perky security guard who legitimately cares about him.
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