Nuanced work by the great John Slattery (“Mad Men’’) as an emotionally distant dad isn’t enough to sustain more than sporadic interest in Brian Savelson’s underwritten, slow-moving indie, which plays distressingly like a photographed off-Broadway drama.
Zach Gilford (“Friday Night Lights’’) is Slattery’s mopey and estranged musician son, who arrives at the family cabin upstate, planning to propose to his girlfriend (Jena Malone).
Dad, who has never met the girlfriend, turns up unexpectedly with his new squeeze (Gabrielle Union), who’s likewise news to the son. Both guys want to immediately flee, but the women convince them to stay and try and work things out.
The acting isn’t bad at all, but except for a four-legged visitor, you can pretty much guess precisely where “In Our Nature’’ is going well before it actually gets there.