The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)

Hoffman plays an art professor whose own art never really took off the way he thought it should. He’s also “the dad” (as his third wife annoyingly refers to him every.single.time -- as in “the dad is very excited that you brought lunch”) of three adult children, all of whom resent him to varying degrees. It’s clear that he threw over his first two kids once he divorced their mother and chose to "focus" on the third child he fathered with his second wife. But even kid #3 wasn’t parented so much as he was used to favorably compare against the other two children.

Oh my word -- this guy was the worst. Thankfully, the kids are able to find common ground when the dad winds up in the hospital and we get a glimmer of hope that they might actually be able to save each other from his toxicity. But gross. Parents like that deserve to die alone.

C