I suppose it's evil to criticize a film about the recovery of a stroke victim, but this isn't a documentary, and the primary focus of the movie is instead about the relationship that evolves between the academic monitoring Conor, the stroke victim, and Conor's wife. And it was all so slow and uneventful. I came very close to shutting it off after about an hour, but I have this weird movie code of trying to see films all the way through, if I can, no matter how bad it might be.
I realize that the reviews thus far have been overwhelmingly positive. All I can say is that according to IMDb, it played in America for one week only on two screens before going to DVD. That's it, and it didn't exactly break any box office records during that engagement as well. So that, hopefully, should tell you something about this film. I see I'm the first American commenting on this movie...we'll see what others think.
I realize that the reviews thus far have been overwhelmingly positive. All I can say is that according to IMDb, it played in America for one week only on two screens before going to DVD. That's it, and it didn't exactly break any box office records during that engagement as well. So that, hopefully, should tell you something about this film. I see I'm the first American commenting on this movie...we'll see what others think.