Brothers and sisters & Brothers and sisters

A Combination Country Delivering (in Canada) relieve a Raven West Films/United States Pictures presentation. (Worldwide sales: Myriad Pictures, La.) Produced by Emily Alden, Carl Bessai, James Brown. Executive producers, Laura Lightbown, Zanna Devine, Kirk D'Amico. Directed, put together by Carl Bessai.With: Cory Monteith, Dustin Milligan, Amanda Crew, Gabrielle Burns, Kacey Rohl, Benjamin Ratner, Camille Sullivan, Gabrielle Rose, Leena Manro, Tom Scholte.Finishing the circle after previous ensemblers "Moms & Kids" and "Fathers & Sons," cinematographer-author-director Carl Bessai's "Brothers and sisters & Brothers and sisters" programmatically cuts across four groups of siblings and siblings, all in crisis, undertake and don't particularly interesting, dramatic or amusing. A comicbook visual motif hooking up story lines doesn't match a bad tone in the writing and acting, that's definitely not comicbook in attitude. Failure to quite click any level will certainly hobble the pic's commercial prospects, despite headlining "Glee" heartthrob Cory Monteith. Hollywood star Justin (Monteith) welcomes do-gooder bro Rory (Dustin Milligan) to his beach pad schizophrenic Jerry's (Benjamin Ratner) constantly changing feelings stress sis Louise (Gabrielle Burns) ambitious actor Nikki (Amanda Crew) swallows large phony Henry's (Tom Scholte) pitch for just about any new female action role, and drives to La with Henry and her colossally sour sis Maggie (Camille Sullivan) bratty teen Sarah (Kacey Rohl) discovers that her space-cadet mother (Bessai regular Gabrielle Rose) features a daughter (Leena Manro) from an ashram fling in India. The writing, together with the pic's inclination to wrap some misunderstanding in the neat package, plays like formulaic TV.Camera (color, HD), Bessai editor, Sabrina Pitre music, Serta Moxon music supervisor, Andrea von Foerster. Examined at Toronto Film Festival (Contemporary World Cinema), Sept. 11, 2011. Running time: 86 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com