City, with a 30% tax credit from the New York State Governor's Office for Motion Picture and Television Development. Various locations were used in Brooklyn and Manhattan as well as Upstate New York; specific locations included Washington Heights, Cold Spring, New York, The Hamptons, Hotel Chelsea and Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg. Post production was completed in Big Beach's New York offices. Reception Our Idiot Brother received positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 70% based on 143 reviews, with an average rating of 6.27/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "It's decidedly uneven, but like Paul Rudd's performance in the title role, Our Idiot Brother is too charming to resist." On Metacritic the film has a score of 60 out of 100 based on 39 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "C+" on a scale of A+ to F. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, and wrote: "It's refreshing, this late in the summer, to find a hot weather comedy that doesn't hate its characters and embed them in scatology and sexual impossibilities." Home media Our Idiot Brother was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on November 29, 2011. References External links 2011 films 2011 comedy-drama films 2011 independent films 2011 LGBT-related films 2010s American films 2010s English-language films American comedy-drama films American films about cannabis American independent films American LGBT-related films Big Beach (company) films Female bisexuality in film Films about drugs Films about dysfunctional families Films about siblings Films directed by Jesse Peretz Films set in New York (state) Films shot in New York City LGBT-related comedy-drama films Stoner films