![]() ![]() Warning: This study guide contains plot spoilers But when he loses out both in love and in a genius grant to his rival, Frank attempts suicide, and is later released into the care of Sheryl’s family. ![]() ![]() Into this mix comes Frank (Steve Carell), Sheryl’s brother who is a gay professor who believes himself to be the leading scholar on Proust. Grandpa is a foul-mouthed, grouchy old man who dotes on his young granddaughter Olive (Abigail Breslin). The third man in the house is Richard’s father (Alan Arkin) who has been evicted from his retirement home for being a drug addict. As a result, he hates everything in the world and he has taken a vow of silence until he achieves his dream of training to be a fighter pilot. Son Dwayne (Paul Dano) is wholeheartedly committed to the ideas of Nietzsche. Meanwhile, his audiences are found in primary schools. Richard is utterly obsessed with his ‘nine steps to winning’ programme, which he imagines will bring him fame and fortune once the book deal has been signed. Father, Richard (Greg Kinnear), is on the point of bankruptcy but has kept this morsel of information from his wife, Sheryl (Toni Collette). ![]() The Hoover family might not be dysfunctional if it wasn’t for the men in the house. ![]()
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