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This movie made me cry a couple times. Mostly because if you have experienced ailing family who are hoarders, you understand the pain and reason they are the way they are. It was high on emotional intelligence and also makes you remember to not lose moments or opportunities that you will regret in life. I liked that it had generational actors, you always feel there is more authenticity in the actors connection. Its definitely palpable here. I really enjoyed the movie alot. Listen closely to the words she sings at the piano at the end, they are significant to the closure of the movie. Watch it!

As a married senior, this was our weekly date movie and a very appropriate one. Instead of romcom, I'd call this one a "rom-dramedy"

Sam & Kate had the novelty of starring the great Oscar-winning Dustin Hoffman (Bill) and Sissy Spacek with their children. Both "courtships" and their preludes were interesting. Nicely intersecting slices of life. Although an ensemble piece, Sam (Jake Hoffman) is probably the main character in the film and has the most screen time. Perhaps ever-so-slightly over-theatrical at times, Jake has otherwise nailed the character and holds our attention. Kate also is interesting and is very mysterious about revealing her back story. Her relationship with her girlfriend and partner Mary at the bookstore is also pleasant. Mary helps facilitate the relationship at every opportunity.

The central relationship between Sam & Kate has good chemistry, the requisite amount of quirkiness and lots of charm. It also has the usual but maddening ghosting periods of relationship movies where nobody says what they are dying to say to the other person and we go to moody musical montages.

The acting of the four leads and the supporting characters range from very good to excellent with one exception, Henry Thomas from ET fame, 40 years later. He's Sam's best friend and a pothead but he's neither realistic nor interesting. On the other hand, even with little to do in a minuscule role, Tyler Labine is delightful

Dustin Hoffman and Sissy Spacek are excellent facilitators as well as developing a delightfully awkward romance of their own until we approach the denouement. Then he discovers that Spacek has a hoarding issue and the story takes a darker turn and also slows down a bit. I won't reveal more other than that the final scenes are very satisfactory.

The movie was long and drawn out, annoying & not at all funny. More depressing actually. Didn't leave us feeling good We wanted to watch something else after but being late for my parents didn't would love to get their $$ back actually.

Uplifting not at all. Good acting yes. Some spots had irritating sharp music not relevant had to mute! Not for the elderly & ill to make feel better at all. Billed as comedy with no comedy in the context. Calling father Bill not Dad was ridiculous as well actor's definitely did their job being annoying. Dustin Hoffmans son good actor as Dad is. I would not recommend it to anyone.

I give this film a: 10 out of 10.

I highly recommend that you guys check this film out for yourself because it's actually really good.

The film is about: Sam, a regular worker at a chocolate factory meets Kate, who owns a library, who widely smiling rejects his advance by saying she is not dating. Sam is a gifted artist and lives with Bill, who we will later know is his father, and Kate regularly visits her mother Tina who lives on her own and suffers from Diogenes' syndrome (in Kate's words, "she is a hoarder"). Kate can't stand looking at pictures her mother has just found and leaves sobbing. Bill has some health problems and smokes, drinks and eats red meat against the advice of his doctor. Kate accepts a coffee with Sam, which they both enjoy, and after a few get togethers which involve family and friends, they kiss, and spend the night together after skating on New Year's Eve. Bill goes on a date with Tina and at the end of a nice dinner, at the sight of Tina's house unlivable condition due to the accumulation of all sorts of objects, he leaves abruptly. Kate decides it is time for emptying again her mother's house. Sam and others help and Sam finds pictures of Kate with a baby boy and another man. After mistakingly throwing in a donation container a box with Tina's items that Kate marked as to keep, she confesses to Sam that her family died in a car accident. One day, Sam comes back home to find his father dead in front of the TV. After a few days, he goes to Kate's house to tell her that he has learned so much from his father going through his things, which he should've known from him when he was alive. He confesses he would hate for her not to know how much she means to him and they fall into a warm embrace and kiss.

Cast: Dustin Hoffman as Bill Sissy Spacek as Tina Jake Hoffman as Sam Schuyler Fisk as Kate.