From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. It's always good to have friends come back to the show.

Our returning champion today is director, Sean Levy, who has, I think, kind of an affinity for making films that are in one way or another lived other places, be it cheaper by the dozen or real steel or Pink Panther and his newest film's adaptation of the novel, This is Where I Leave You. I guess, of course, again, is the best dress director I know, Sean Lee.

First of all, it's so good to have you back, Sean.

I'm really happy to be here, Elvis. Thank you.

And tell the audience, those who don't know the book, This Is Where I Leave You, what it's about. Jonathan Trapper is about a family and a guy named Judd, whose life kind of implodes all within

a very compact period. He finds his wife cheating on him with his boss. On the heels of that

cataclysm, his dad dies. And he's informed by his mom that his father's dying wish was at the full family because there's

four kids and a mom who survived this dad that they sit Shiva which is this Jewish ritual of

seven days no work no travel the family in a house almost all day every day for seven days and

and that's the premise of the book and movie.

And you have new people, Jane Fonda, for God says.

Well, I think, yeah, and I think that one there has a really bright future.

You remember, I hope you and your listeners remember that name.

Okay, James Fonda.

Write that down for those you were playing at home.

Corey Stolls in this film.

Yeah, it's a nice blend.

But you bring back Tina Faye, with whom you worked before.

Yeah, I did.

And Roseburn.

And Roseburn and I did a movie together.

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