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After purchasing the room for the day, he calls his old bandmates just after they arrive, Perry is reminded by his wife that he must let his in-laws into the house that he forgot about. Soon after, Perry rents the presidential suite from the pristine no-nonsense owner, who firmly reminds him that the hotel has a strict 'no-party' policy. She reveals she is now a manager for Joan Jett, who is performing in New York that night. While waiting to rent a room, Perry runs into Christy, an old girlfriend of his when he was in the band. Perry eventually finds a nice hotel where he plans to throw a reunion party for his band. Upset for him, Jake gives Perry the day off and $1000 to do whatever he wishes to, hopeful that giving him a day to relax will allow him to overcome what has been causing his apathy. His brother chastises him on his constant lethargy at work until Perry reveals to him that his family forgot his birthday. After picking up his daughter's new guitar his wife picked out for her, Perry arrives at work at his family's hardware store where his little brother Jake has accepted the main responsibility. On his birthday, the same day as his daughter's talent show, Perry is disappointed to notice that nobody has remembered his birthday. Forced to accept his new life, Miller reluctantly lives his lifestyle as a father of two with his hard-working lawyer wife Karen, his talented guitar-playing daughter Salome and his newborn child. Twenty years later, Perry and his band have parted. His band gives a brief interview before they play their song 'Devil's Kind'.

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despite the fact that the actress’ biggest credit to date is a lead in the Nick series “Game Shakers.”Ĭlick here for cast and crew information.In 1995, Perry Miller performs in New York with his punk band known as The Skunks. The uniformly strong cast all deserve kudos, but Shipman stands out as the intelligent, talented but refreshingly child-like Salome she's a charming departure from the ubiquitous smug, smart-mouthed spawn of Nickelodeon. But Ordinary World gets better as it goes along, replacing its overage-adolescent goofiness with a surprisingly touching portrait of a guy just realizing that he's long outgrown his 'Hope I die before I get old' fantasies. It would be easy to dismiss Lee Kirk's directing debut as a baby-man whine-fest if you were to bail halfway through, which is an ever-present danger with on-demand platforms. The catalysts are Salome's custom guitar, which Perry has been charged with picking up so she'll have it for her school gig, and former band mate Gary ( “Portlandia”’s Fred Armisen), a bad influence of such magnitude that he might as well have made his entrance on cloven hooves, trailing a cloud of sulfur.Īs the narrative pins click into place, Perry somehow finds himself hosting an out-of-control party in the presidential suite of the aggressively low-key Drake Hotel forgetting he's supposed to attend to his visiting in-laws crossing paths with his still-wild ex (Judy Greer), who's in town with client Joan Jett (as herself) and facing down the ghosts of rock ’n’ roll partners-in-crime past, including Gary and the utterly out-of-it Pete, played by the bizarre pleasure that is 2000s stalwart Kevin Corrigan. barely, at the family hardware store run by his younger brother.īut the plain fact is that he's Mister Mom, even if he does still look as though he does his hair with an eggbeater, and his 40th birthday-which also happens to be the day Salome is performing in the school talent show-is ground zero for his attack of middle-aged crazy. Perry tells himself (and everyone else who'll listen) that the band is just on hiatus and hey, he has a job.

Now he's married and living in Queens with high-powered lawyer Karen (Selma Blair) and their two kids, preternaturally cool geek-girl Salome ( Madisyn Shipman), a blossoming musician, and her baby brother. Twenty years ago, Perry Miller (Billie Joe Armstrong) and his band were cool, edgy and quintessentially rock ’n' roll.