Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage are testing the bounds of familial love when it comes to being criminals on the run.
The duo star as two brothers in the aptly-titled action-comedy film “Brothers,” the newest from “Palm Springs” breakout director Max Barbakow. Etan Cohen is credited with the story, and Macon Blair wrote the script.
The official synopsis reads: “‘Brothers’ tells the story of a reformed criminal (Brolin) whose attempt at going straight is derailed when he reunites with his sanity-testing twin brother (Dinklage) on a cross-country road trip for the score of a lifetime. Dodging bullets, the law, and an overbearing mother (Glenn Close) along the way, they must heal their severed family bond before they end up killing each other.”
Brendan Fraser, Taylour Paige, M. Emmet Walsh, and Jennifer Landon co-star.
Leads Brolin and Dinklage also produce, along with Andrew Lazar and David Ginsberg. Screenwriter Blair executive produces alongside Trish Stanard.
Barbakow told Entertainment Weekly that “Brothers” has a comedic parallel to his 2020 hit “Palm Springs.”
“It has one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel, which means just pathos and emotion and anarchic comedy, really swinging for big laughs not so much through jokes but through character,” Barbakow said of the script. “Like Josh Brolin in this movie, I’m a younger brother in my family dynamic. So it’s really an opportunity to continue to chase my sensibility and also explore a different part of myself, because ‘Palm Springs’ was very personal, as well. This really was all about distilling the story of this dysfunctional family, which I think everybody could relate to, through the lens of a caper heist.”
He teased, “[We had] like a murderer’s row of esteemed actors who were so down to get silly and weird. It is quite a romp. We have crazy stuff from an orangutan in a room with Brolin to picking up a cadaver on a golf course. It was just an embarrassment of riches in the edit.”
“Brothers” premieres in select theaters on October 10 and will stream on Amazon Prime Video on October 17. Check out the trailer below.
