At a juncture in his life, New Yorker Roger Greenberg agrees to housesit for his successful brother on the West Coast. As he tries to reconnect with old friends, he finds a kindred spirit in his brother’s personal assistant Florence, an aspiring singer as much a lost soul as he is.
After The Squid and the Whale and Margot at the Wedding, Noah Baumbach leaves New York for sunny California and in doing so, gives the great Greta Gerwig her breakout role. Co-starring a downbeat Ben Stiller, with a killer original soundtrack curated by LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy!