The Steps is a 2015 Canadian comedy film directed by Andrew Currie. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Plot
Jeff (Jason Ritter), a Wall Street power broker going through a slump in business and relationship, and Marla (Emmanuelle Chriqui), a party-loving Princeton graduate, are siblings. Their father Ed (James Brolin) is a wealthy old man who has remarried and moved to Lake Country in Ontario, Canada. The siblings resentfully arrive with their Dad's lake house to meet his new wife, an ex-waitress, Sherry (Christine Lahti) and her children: redneck David (Benjamin Arthur) and his wife Tammy (Kate Corbett), failed musician Keith (Steven McCarthy) and academically inclined Sam (Vinay Virmani). Ed and Sherry announce their plans to adopt a child in an attempt to gel the new family together. The movie attempts to portray a comic clash between two cultures and two families which quickly descends into chaos.
Cast
Emmanuelle Chriqui as Marla
James Brolin as Ed
Jason Ritter as Jeff
Christine Lahti as Sherry
Naomi Snieckus as Ellen
Kate Corbett as Tammy
Rainbow Francks as Dean
Steven McCarthy as Keith
Vinay Virmani as Sam
Benjamin Arthur as David