Adult Children

10/28/2025

We’d all like to believe that “with age comes wisdom.” But is that necessarily true? In the case of a suburban Chicago family, the household’s four grown children demonstrate that getting older doesn’t automatically equate to getting smarter or more mature. Nevertheless, as fate would have it, life unexpectedly hands them an opportunity to test out that notion in this modestly entertaining comedy-drama from director Rich Newey. When the family’s only son, Josh (Thomas Sadoski), falls prey to his ongoing battle with substance abuse (mostly, though not exclusively, prescription painkillers), he searches for (but is unable to secure) rehab treatment for his condition, something that has obviously come up a number of times before. So, while awaiting a safe place to get clean, he needs a sanctu