With The Wendell Baker Story, the Wilson boys — Luke, Owen and Andrew — may have just established themselves as the funniest brother act since Groucho, Chico and Harpo; certainly they’ve proved themselves a family of overachievers. Luke Wilson wrote the script and co-directed with Andrew. Luke also stars as the title character, a likable con artist who sells fake IDs to illegal immigrants out of an Airstream he’s dubbed “the Ellis Island of the Southwest.”

Alas, the immigrants aren’t all that’s illegal. When his occupation lands him in the clink, Wendell makes use of his innate people skills by negotiating a truce between the prison’s Crips and Aryan Brotherhood. Inspired by his success, he spends the rest of his incarceration in the prison library, reading up on the hospitality industry. Wendell’s first job back on the outside is at a retirement home where a nefarious head nurse (played to a nicely nasty turn by brother Owen) has been stealing from the residents and threatening them with slave labor.

In its look and feel, The Wendell Baker Story comes across as a good-natured throwback to the polyester ‘70s, “when intimate comedies could be quirky without pretense,” writes John Defore in The Hollywood Reporter. Variety’s Joe Leydon agrees. “Luke Wilson is extremely engaging in the lead role . . . especially when Wendell evidences self-confidence that appears entirely unjustified.” The Wendell Baker Story, adds Leydon, is “at once insouciantly laid back and beguilingly loony,” a film that proceeds “at the amiable pace of a cheery stoner on a Sunday afternoon stroll.”