It has it all: romance, family relationships, old people, young people, friends, comedy, Juliette Lewis; but it is a slow movie. It doesn't really start and doesn't really end. It's like a slice of someone's life. So you have to be in the mood for one of those "life" movies.
The acting is top notch, something that comes naturally to Donald Sutherland, but all the other actors played well also. The music is suitable, the story unfolds in a predictable, but natural way.
Bottom line: a movie about losing yourself in the comfortable but dead zone of friends that don't really help, family that doesn't really go anywhere, jobs that don't do anything, but that feels like home. The happy ending shows our hero getting out of it, not that it is hard, just that you have to will yourself out.
The acting is top notch, something that comes naturally to Donald Sutherland, but all the other actors played well also. The music is suitable, the story unfolds in a predictable, but natural way.
Bottom line: a movie about losing yourself in the comfortable but dead zone of friends that don't really help, family that doesn't really go anywhere, jobs that don't do anything, but that feels like home. The happy ending shows our hero getting out of it, not that it is hard, just that you have to will yourself out.