They say you can’t choose your family — but you can choose whether or not to fight with them… In this charming and chaotic tale of grudges, wills and wildly mismatched relatives, The Problem With People sees acting heavyweights Colm Meaney and Paul Reiser team up — and square off — as long-lost cousins thrown together by one dying wish.
The film is available to stream online now, and we caught up with Colm and Paul to talk about cultural clashes, comedy chemistry and what drew them to this family affair.
About The Problem with People
Colm Meaney (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Layer Cake) and Paul Reiser (Mad About You, Aliens) star as two estranged cousins, who having never met before, must try and put to rest a generation’s worth of family disputes – before they start another one! Honouring his father’s last wish to reunite with the American side of his family, Irishman Ciáran calls his cousin, Barry, out of the blue with the offer for him to visit his homeland. Barry, keen to escape from the daily grind of his New York real estate firm, agrees to make the long trip over. However, after an initially warm welcome, tensions soon boil over when it’s discovered that Barry has unexpectedly been left half the money in Ciáran’s father’s will. With the two men now torn apart by greed and jealousy, resulting in a feud that spirals into a series of pretty squabbles and disastrous hijinks, will they ever be able to give peace a chance again?
