A Little Bit Of Overwork

A' 'Little Bit Of Overwork is a 2013 American Drama film written by Naomi Foner and directed by Sidney Lumet starring Brad Pitt, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Callan McAuliffe, Jamie Foxx, Courteny Cox, Bryce Dallas Howard, Channing Tatum, Kerry Washington, Mila Kunis, Kelsey Grammar, Mary McDonnell and Ryan Kelley.

Brad Pitt served as a casting director for the film having gone out and found actors Callan and Ryan to portray the youngest MaCallister brothers Bennie and Adam.

The film is slated for theatrical release worldwide on January 19th, 2013.

Plot
Three Brothers: Hardy (Brad Pitt), Robbie (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Bennie (Callan McAuliffe) are burdoned with taking care of their hard to control, highly autistic fourth brother Adam (Ryan Kelley).

Their fifth brother Marty (Channing Tatum) couldn't handle the burdon of Adam anymore and or his condition so he chose to flee with a girl he had met named Lucy (Kerry Washington).

The brother's father died of leukemia only a year ago and their mother Rita (Courteny Cox) is serving a life sentence for the manslaughter of an important local governor.

Hardy is feircely protective of Adam and constantly pushing Robbie and Bennie to take better care of Adam as the four find themselves living in a stingy home their mom drafted them in shortly before her incarceration.

The film is told through the narractives of all five brothers: including autistic Adam who reveals himself to possess an inoperable brain tumor set to burst and subsequently kill him within only a week.

We trek through the last seven days on Earth Adam has, through his eyes and the eyes of his brothers.

First we are taken through the story of Marty the eldest brother.

Marty possesses a beautiful accountant girlfriend Annabelle Simmons (Bryce Dallas Howard) who struggles maintain a relationship with Marty as he constantly is distancing her for his brother.

Her parents (Kelsey Grammary and Mary McDonnell) wish her to end her relationship with Hardy not knowing he possesses an autistic brother he is constantly caring for but rather believing he is just a white trash punk who is most likely a felon like his mother and drug addict like his brother Robbie.

Eventually they come to learn of Adam and invite Adam and Hardy over for tea with them which ends up in a disaster as Adam suffers a psychotic episode.

We are then taken through the story of Robbie, the second eldest brother who is a heroin addict, a habit he broke into as he was unable to cope with his burdons and problems.

Robbie finds redirection and a hand to pull him out of the darkness to the light in the form of Painkiller addict Georgia Cramb (Mila Kunis) who is ready to break herself out of her drug habit and upon falling instantly for Robbie wishes to do the same for him.

The third story told is the third eldest brother Marty who we see living in Massachusetts away from Chicago with his now wife Lucy MaCallister and her son Harry Walker (Jaden Smith).

His past and brother are found out by wife Lucy who then ushers him to her life-long bestfriend Lenny Jevyll (Jamie Foxx) who once possessed a brother with high functioning austism he abandoned and who unfortunatley whilest he was gone came to drink drain cleaner from under the sink which resulted in him dying.

Lenny tells Marty how he should of never walked out on his brother, that his parents had died in the Oceanic Flight 115 plane crash and that his brother named Toby was his only family.