Whether it's Tina Fey and Amy Poehler riffing in what feels like the secret language of twin sisters at the Golden Globes or the big-brother/little-brother vibe of Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers, the show's younger alumni now radiate the back-and-forth familiarity of siblings who actually like one another. Maybe that explains Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader's effortless chemistry in The Skeleton Twins.
Wiig and Hader play a troubled sister and brother grappling with the long-festering emotional fallout of their messed-up family. Their mother (Joanna Gleason) is a dizzy New Age healer with her head in the sand when it comes to her kids' problems. And their father committed suicide when they were children — an exit that's all too understandable for Wiig and Hader's now-grown-up-and-miserable Maggie and Milo. In fact, in the opening moments of the film, Maggie is prevented from swallowing a fistful of pills by a call informing her that Milo has just tried to kill himself by slicing his wrists in the bathtub. Did I mention that The Skeleton Twins is a comedy?
Hader, though, is the film's real surprise. It would have been easy for him to turn Milo into a gay cartoon like his after-hours alter ego Stefon. But he resists the temptation to go for easy laughs and broad strokes and delivers something darker and deeper. It's a shockingly vulnerable performance, one of the best I've seen all year.
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