Entertainment

Peep World

Barry Blaustein’s broad and loud farce about a wildly dysfunctional Los Angeles family strands a good cast in a sea of stereotypes and clichés — for starters, it’s time to put a moratorium on movies where men have uncontrollable erections.

That problem afflicts the smug author (Ben Schwartz) of the titular book, the youngest son of a crass Jewish real estate magnate (Ron Rifkin) who’s the only family member spared in the son’s autobiographical best seller.

The most intimate revelations, involving regular visits to a porn shop, have humiliated the eldest brother, a failed architect played by Michael C. Hall (“Dexter”) whose marriage to his pregnant wife (Judy Greer) is in serious trouble.

They join their other loser siblings — Rainn Wilson as a failed attorney and Sarah Silverman as a rageaholic washed-up actress — along with their remarried mother (Lesley Ann Warren) and their significant others for dad’s 70th birthday dinner.

He arrives with his new girlfriend, an actress who will play his daughter’s doppelganger in a movie based on the youngest son’s novel, and things go downhill from there. The heavy-handed “Peep World” has a few laughs sprinkled over its abbreviated running time as it limps to a predictable conclusion.