Step Brothers Movie Essay

The movie Step Brothers portrays many examples of narcissistic personality disorder within the characters of the film. The movie begins as Brennan Huff and Dale Doback are forced to move in with each other after their parents get married. Dale and Brennan are both unemployed, middle-aged men, who still live with their parents and rely on them to do everything for them. From the first time they meet, Brennan and Dale do not get along with each other and always try make everything a competition between the two of them. Brennan and Dale finally bond after they realize that there is something they have in common -- their hatred for Brennan’s little brother, Derek Huff.
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They included things that might not seem relevant to narcissistic personality disorder if you were not looking for them. With everything I have learned while researching narcissistic personality disorder, I can conclude that the movie did a very well job on paying attention to even the small details in this disorder. I do believe that this film is of educational value to the viewers about content on narcissistic personality disorder. The reason that I believe this is because of how they showed narcissism to affect relationships and how hard and difficult it would be to have someone in your life that is like that, let alone two middle-aged men. As from what you can learn about someone with narcissistic personality disorder form this film is how they appear to be very tough on the outside and think very highly of themselves, but on the inside they are actually very insecure. The subject matter was treated in a humorous manner. I do not think that this took away from the seriousness of narcissistic personality disorder. Everything involving the disorder was covered in the film also. The film showed that this disorder can never be cured but there are things that you can do to make it better and less