Family road-trip movie! Well, not quite. Jason Sudeikis plays a small-fry dope dealer who gets in over his head and suddenly must transport 1,500 kilos of marijuana across the Mexican border. To elude border patrol, he enlists virtual strangers to pose as his family: His stripper neighbor (Jennifer Aniston) plays his wife, the sad latchkey kid (Will Poulter) from his apartment building impersonates his son, and the homeless young woman on his block (Emma Roberts) morphs into his sullen teenage daughter.
Off they go in an RV, making memories over a long July 4 weekend. (Sample bonding moment: Taking pity on her inexperienced ''brother,'' Roberts' character gives Poulter some mouth-to-mouth with Mom and Pop coaching in the background.) ''It's sort of sweet,'' says Aniston, ''though it's kind of hard to put the word sweet on this movie because it's about a group of people trying to smuggle weed across the border. But somehow in all of that they become a family.'' Ed Helms, who leaves his glasses at home for this one, has a quick turn as a criminal mastermind. Asked to describe the actor's new look, director Rawson Marshall Thurber says, ''Picture if Scarface f---ed an accountant.''