The Year of Getting to Know Us

PARK CITY -- A comedy in name only. Even in a year when many of the films in Sundance's prestigious Premieres section were sub-par, this one seemed particularly lame.

Directed by Patrick Sisam. With Tom Arnold, Armando Acevedo, Holland Hayes, Karl Anthony. A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.

A workaholic with a fear of commitment struggles to reconcile his dysfunctional past during a trip back home to visit his ailing father in this comedy starring Jimmy Fallon. Christopher Rocket (Fallon) is a nice enough guy, but thanks to his troubled family history, he isn't much for making commitments. Just as his smoldering girlfriend Anne (Lucy Liu) begins hinting that she's ready for him to pop the big question, Christopher's self-absorbed father (Tom Arnold) suffers a major stroke. But the stroke may actually be a blessing in disguise, because once Christopher returns to Florida and begins building bridges with his free-spirited mother Jane (Sharon Stone), his priorities finally start coming into focus.

Having grown up with wacky, dysfunctional parents, New York writer Chris Rocket (Jimmy Fallon) finds his world turned upside down again when he returns to his childhood home in Florida. After memories of his neglectful, golf-obsessed father (Tom Arnold) and his beyond eccentric mother (Sharon Stone) resurface, Chris finds himself losing control. With a family like this, he'll be lucky to last the week.MPAA Rating: R language 2008 Eliot Rocket Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

The Year of Getting to Know Us is a comedy drama film directed by Patrick Sisam and starring Tom Arnold, Jimmy Fallon, Lucy Liu and Sharon Stone. It premiered at 24 January 2008 at the Sundance Film Festival.[1]