This Is Where I Leave You: 5 Changes the Movie Made From the Book

Here's another name change that we actually have a reason for. The book follows the Foxman family, but in the movie, they've been renamed the Altmans. Why the change? At BookCon, director Shawn Levy told Entertainment Weekly it was a legal thing: "You have to submit names of all the characters, and if there are real people with those names in the community or area represented in the movie, you can’t use that name. And we didn’t want to change the first names." He and author Tropper came up with Altman together after Tropper said they were "emailing back and forth vaguely Jewish names."