Premise: Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman, The Hogan Family, Some of My Best Friends), a widower, wants nothing more than to be a good father to his 13-year-old son, George-Michael (Michael Cera, Braceface). He resolves to quit the family business for good and move to Arizona to start a new life. But before they can depart, Michael's father (Jeffery Tambor, The Larry Sanders Show, That Was Then") is arrested for shifty accounting practices at the family-owned conglomerate. The Bluth family assets are frozen, and each member of the eccentric family is sent reeling. Michael's mother, Lucille (Jessica Walter, Trapper John, M.D.) finds herself living alone in a penthouse without the financial means to maintain it, while Michael's two brothers, GOB (Will Arnett, The Mike O'Malley Show), and Buster (Tony Hale), his sister Lindsay (Portia DeRossi, Ally McBeal), her husband Tobias (David Cross, Mr. Show with Bob and David) and her daughter Maeby (Alia Shawkat, State of Grace) also find themselves having to recreate their lifestyles to fit their new financial status. Michael reluctantly finds himself having to pull his offbeat family up by their bootstraps and slowly teach them how to live without the family fortune.