After an urban couple purchases a place in New York, the husband loses his job. With no other options, the couple leaves for Georgia to live with family. Along the way, they stay at a bed and breakfast hotel that turns out to be a hippie commune.
Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd play Linda and George, busy New Yorkers, whose life is all about work and lived at a fast pace. Until one day Linda comes home to find George sitting on the sofa with the bad news that he has been fired. Unable to keep up with the lifestyle they were once used to, they decide to leave New York and go to live with George’s very sucessful brother, who can also give George a job. After a short time George realises he can not live under the thumb of his brother, so George and Linda decide to leave and find the right place to settle down, somewhere, where they feel like they belong. So their journey begins. They come across a commune where rules don’t exist, life there is all about freedom and free love. Is this the place for them? Watch the film and see, if the trailer is anything to go by, I think we are in for a treat. It looks like a film that is going to make us laugh. There are a couple of crazy words like nudism, hippie you need to be familiar with before you watch the film though.
Jennifer Aniston has recently starred in the movie ‘Horrible Bosses’ (2011) which was quite a success with an imdb rating of 7.1. After the very popular, TV series ‘Friends’ finished, (It ran for 10 years) Aniston has had much success in the comedy film genre. She has been acting with well known comedy actors. In the film ‘Just Go with It’ (2011) imdb rating 6.3, she starred along side the popular Adam Sandler. In ‘Marley & Me’, she played one half of a couple with Owen Wilson and in the film ‘The Switch’ she worked with Jason Bateman, who recentley starred in the hit comedy ‘Paul’ (2011) imdb point is 7.1.
Justin Theroux was announced as part of the cast on June 4, 2010. Fred Armisen was originally cast in the role of nudist Wayne Dunbar, but he has since been replaced by Joe Lo Truglio after scheduling difficulties. Malin Åkerman and Lauren Ambrose were announced as cast members on September 15. Ambrose plays a member of the freewheeling commune that the two stars come into contact with en route to Atlanta. On October 5, Alan Alda was announced to play "the head of a naturist village". Michaela Watkins was announced to play Rudd's sister-in-law on October 18. David Wain announced the addition of Jordan Peele to the cast on his blog on September 12 and Ken Marino and Kerri Kenney-Silver on September 19. Paul Rudd will reunite with Jennifer Aniston for the first time in seven years, since they both co-starred together in 18 episodes of the sitcom Friends. The two also co-starred in the 1998 comedy "The Object of My Affection".
David Wain began chronicling the film's production and pre-production on his blog on May 21, 2010. Most of the production will be taking place in Georgia.
Filming
Filming took place at the Gwinnett Diner in Lawrenceville, Georgia which was also used for a scene in the film Road Trip. It has been moved to another part of Campton/Monroe Georgia area, in a subdivision off Ozora road called "Miramonte Way". Filming also took place in Habersham County, Georgia off of New Liberty Rd.
