My wife rented this movie because of its great cast. Always intelligent Julianne Moore, veteran Roy Schneider, Blythe Danner, Hope Davis, and Noah Wylie.
Yes, you get to see Julianne Moore convincingly breakdown into tears as she does in so many of her films.
Great movies often don't explain all the details of the plot or the character's motivations. They leave the viewer to use their own imaginations to fill in the space. However, in this movie the viewer is left with a Grand Canyon of missing motivations.
Why is Julianne Moore so bitter and caustic? Why is her boyfriend attracted to her other than frequent sex? What in the world is wrong with the relationship between the father and the mother? She claims to still love him even after. After what? Does the father have dementia? And is Moore showing early signs of the same disease? Why does Julianne Moore's kindergarten friend act like a doofus but with a photographic memory for an obscure (and totally fictional) tragic novel about bunnies? Does Moore's boyfriend get more than a foot rub from her perky younger sister? And why are the beds so tiny in this enormous New England home?
My favorite scene is where a split screen reveals the father watching a home movie of a happy childhood birthday party while silently wallowing in regret. Bravo!
The answer for several characters in this movie is to just get up and walk away from this dysfunctional family. I felt the same way.
Yes, you get to see Julianne Moore convincingly breakdown into tears as she does in so many of her films.
Great movies often don't explain all the details of the plot or the character's motivations. They leave the viewer to use their own imaginations to fill in the space. However, in this movie the viewer is left with a Grand Canyon of missing motivations.
Why is Julianne Moore so bitter and caustic? Why is her boyfriend attracted to her other than frequent sex? What in the world is wrong with the relationship between the father and the mother? She claims to still love him even after. After what? Does the father have dementia? And is Moore showing early signs of the same disease? Why does Julianne Moore's kindergarten friend act like a doofus but with a photographic memory for an obscure (and totally fictional) tragic novel about bunnies? Does Moore's boyfriend get more than a foot rub from her perky younger sister? And why are the beds so tiny in this enormous New England home?
My favorite scene is where a split screen reveals the father watching a home movie of a happy childhood birthday party while silently wallowing in regret. Bravo!
The answer for several characters in this movie is to just get up and walk away from this dysfunctional family. I felt the same way.