Sunday dinner takes a sinister turn when an unwelcome uncle arrives bearing a shocking secret, pushing a seemingly ordinary suburban family to contemplate unthinkable actions.
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At Jerry Enrico Colantoni and Joy Jennings’ Sunday family dinner with their adult children Jolene Melanie Leishman and Jim Iain Stewart, the tension is palpable. Dad is focused on alcohol, Jim is preoccupied with mobility, Jolene isn’t drinking, and Joy Mindy Cohn keeps the conversation flowing to fill the silence. Secretive undercurrents ripple through the room as each family member guards private concerns.
Jolene hides in the upstairs bathroom to avoid Joy gushing over her ‘babies,’ while Jim follows, noticing she is hiding something. When Jolene confirms her pregnancy, she asks after Jim's husband Pete Izad Etemadi; Jim deflects.
Meanwhile Joy and Jerry discuss how to share their own news: he wants to tell the kids right away, but she wants the perfect moment. Jolene and Jim return before they can agree. Suddenly, uncle Frank Juan Chioran knocks, and Jerry's older brother is immediately antagonistic—rude to everyone, he recounts his journey from Mexico, where he lives to avoid the police, having traveled by bus with a fake ID to further evade them.
Jolene and Jim try to chat, but Frank mostly makes negative remarks about his nephew's sexuality. Joy brings out the banana breeze pie she baked to soften the blow of losing the house; after Frank extols the pie’s virtues, Jolene demands he reveal why he is really here. The parents argue with Frank outside, while the kids are asked to serve the pie.
Before the parents return, Jim reveals to Jolene that he is getting divorced from his husband Pete. The parents enter alone and, painfully, explain. As their travel agency had been doing poorly for a decade, they permitted someone to launder money through it. Frank found out, so he has been blackmailing Jerry.
Frank gleefully announces he is taking both the house and the 5 million that Joy and Jerry earned from the laundering. Everyone has to pack their things that evening. Frank said he would only back down over his dead body, so plants the idea of killing him, both in Jolene's and her parents' minds. He is downstairs, throwing out family mementos, as the others are upstairs, starting to plot their revenge.
Jolene gives Frank an opportunity to redeem himself. She suggests he take the cash but leave them the house. Frank admits he mostly seeks revenge against Jerry, who he has envied for over 30 years. Jolene gives him the Lorazepam-dusted pie, which he devours.
Joy smashes a lamp over Frank's head, then Jerry tries to strangle him. She then pushes Frank down the stairs. Angry, he tries to strangle Jim, who defends himself by raising his right hand laden with the pie knife, which Frank walks into. As he succumbs to his wounds, his hand catches the pie tin and it falls on his face.
Jolene and Jim are horrified at their role in Frank's demise, but a gleeful Jerry praises them. He and Joy soon after sneak off and have sex, which Jolene sees. Appalled, she hurries upstairs and slips on Uncle Frank's pool of blood.
Jolene's pregnancy is accidentally revealed, annoying her as she has not decided yet. Meanwhile the neighbor appears, seeking her dog. Afterwards, Jim starts dismembering the body in the basement. His ex Pete soon appears, making a scene. Jolene lets him stay so he stops disturbing the neighbors. Jim and Pete finally resolve their differences, when there is a knock at the door.
A police officer has come for a noise complaint, so insists on entering. Tarps are blocking the dining room, so they explain they are renovating. The neighbor's dog appears with the arm it found in their basement, but the family manages to keep it from the officer. He is suspicious of what is going on, so Joy decides to 'confess' by weirdly explaining what happened without telling the truth.
Finally, Pete convinces the officer to not call back up, then leads him out to 'give him a ride home'. But he returns, to remind them they owe him big time. Pete therefore expects they will do a murder mystery activity another Sunday.
Everyone comes together, stripping the dining room walls and scrubbing the floors. Jim chops up the body so part can be frozen and they can start to burn the rest. Everyone becomes closer.
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Frank discovered that Jerry and Joy allowed someone to launder money through their travel agency, which had been struggling for a decade. Using this knowledge, he blackmail them and demands both the house and the $5 million they earned from the laundering operation.
Earlier, Joy and Jerry argue about when to share their own news, hinting they are keeping a secret from the children.
When Jolene offers Frank the money in exchange for leaving the house, he admits his true motivation is envy and resentment toward Jerry for over 30 years. The money is secondary, he wants to destroy his brother out of long-standing jealousy.
Frank is immediately antagonistic upon arrival, making rude remarks about everyone, suggesting personal animosity rather than just financial gain.
Jolene first drugs Frank with Lorazepam by putting it in the banana breeze pie he eats. Then Joy smashes a lamp over his head, Jerry tries to strangle him, and Joy finally pushes him down the stairs. Frank dies after colliding with the pie tin, which lands on his face.
Frank says he would only back down over his dead body, planting the idea of killing him in both Jolene's and her parents' minds.
Jolene attempts to negotiate with Frank first, offering him the money if he leaves the house. When that fails and Frank reveals his true motive is revenge, Jolene decides to disable him by drugging his pie with Lorazepam to make the physical attack easier and reduce his ability to fight back.
Jolene is established as pregnant and protective, she wants to handle the situation before it endangers her or her family further.
After being weakened by the Lorazepam-laced pie, Frank is attacked by the family: Joy hits him with a lamp, Jerry tries to strangle him, and Joy pushes him down the stairs. He dies from these combined injuries when he lands on the pie tin, which ends up on his face.
The family needs to dispose of Frank's body completely to avoid detection. Jim takes on the task of dismembering the body in the basement so they can freeze some parts and burn the rest, making it easier to eliminate all evidence of the murder.
When the officer arrives for a noise complaint and sees suspicious details like tarps and the neighbor's dog carrying an arm, Joy gives a bizarre non-confession that explains nothing truthfully. Pete then convinces the officer not to call backup and offers him a ride home, buying time for the family to continue cleaning up.
Pete arrives during the chaotic aftermath and initially causes a scene, but Jolene lets him stay to prevent him from disturbing the neighbors further. Once inside, Pete helps distract the police officer and convinces him not to call backup. He later implies he expects the family to owe him favors, hinting at future leverage.
After Frank's death, Jolene slips on his pool of blood while running upstairs after seeing her parents have sex. This accident causes her pregnancy to be revealed to everyone before she had made a decision about keeping it, which annoys her.
Earlier, Jim discovers Jolene is pregnant in the upstairs bathroom but agrees to keep it secret until she's ready.
After successfully killing Frank and eliminating the threat to their home and money, Jerry and Joy feel a rush of relief and adrenaline. They sneak off together and have sex, which Jolene unfortunately witnesses, adding to the family's already disturbed state.
The ending shows the family working together to strip walls, scrub floors, and dispose of Frank's body parts. They grow closer through the shared secret and crime, achieving a twisted unity. However, Pete's hint that they'll do "another murder mystery" suggests the family has crossed a moral threshold they can't return from.
Jim reveals to Jolene during the dinner that he is divorcing his husband Pete. The specific reasons for their marital breakdown are not detailed in the film, but Jim deflects when Jolene asks about Pete, suggesting the divorce is already contentious.
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