People Places Things

People Places Things is a 2015 American comedy film written and directed by James C. Strouse.

The film stars Jemaine Clement, Regina Hall, Jessica Williams, Stephanie Allynne and Michael Chernus.

Will Henry is a graphic novelist and art instructor, adjusting decorations for the birthday party of his five-year-old twin daughters, Clio and Colette.

However, a bomb threat cancels their school day, and needing a babysitter while he teaches class, he asks Kat to watch them.

When Will goes to pick the girls up after class, Diane admonishes him for passing his daughters off on Kat when she needs her education, and for bouncing them around between parents.

Will and Diane begin a casual relationship, and things become tense between Charlie and Will; they blame each other's behavior for the girls' confusion.

Charlie calls Will one night with 'an emergency'; when he rushes over she tells him that the girls have locked themselves in the bathroom, saying that they want to live with him.

Will finds Kat again, who is angry at him for hurting her mother, and he gives her his own set of drawings, of him struggling with letting go of Charlie that he had been creating throughout the film.

The website's critical consensus reads, "People Places Things finds writer-director Jim Strouse in peak form — and makes the most of talented stars who help breathe fresh life into familiar narrative territory.