Overview
Eight months after the death of his wife, Frank Goode looks forward to a reunion with his four adult children. When all of them cancel their visits at the last minute, Frank, against the advice of his doctor, sets out on a road trip to reconnect with his offspring. As he visits each one in turn, Frank finds that his children's lives are not quite as picture-perfect as they've made them out to be.
My first reaction to seeing this film is that it was great to see Robert De Niro playing in a serious role after two decades of (almost completely) mediocre movies. I mean, who was picking his scripts? Was he short on money? Anyway, as you probably know, the film is *fine*. It does bring a lot of things together at the end, and the last 20 minutes are really enjoyable. But the rest of the movie is rather pedestrian, and I think that has a lot to do with the casting of De Niro. He doesn’t do pedestrian well. We probably needed to have a little more insight into the character during the middle of the movie, and that just wasn’t there. A better movie with similar themes would be
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews Everybody's Fine
Movie title: Everybody's Fine
Movie description: Eight months after the death of his wife, Frank Goode looks forward to a reunion with his four adult children. When all of them cancel their visits at the last minute, Frank, against the advice of his doctor, sets out on a road trip to reconnect with his offspring. As he visits each one in turn, Frank finds that his children's lives are not quite as picture-perfect as they've made them out to be.
Date published: 2024-10-24
Director(s): Kirk Jones
Actor(s): Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Melissa Leo, Damian Young, James Frain, Katherine Moennig, Brendan Sexton III, James Murtaugh, Austin Lysy, Chandler Frantz, Lily Mo Sheen, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Lucian Maisel, Jason Harris, Ben Schwartz
Genre: Drama
My Review
My first reaction to seeing this film is that it was great to see Robert De Niro playing in a serious role after two decades of (almost completely) mediocre movies. I mean, who was picking his scripts? Was he short on money? Anyway, as you probably know, the film is *fine*. It does bring a lot of things together at the end, and the last 20 minutes are really enjoyable. But the rest of the movie is rather pedestrian, and I think that has a lot to do with the casting of De Niro. He doesn’t do pedestrian well. We probably needed to have a little more insight into the character during the middle of the movie, and that just wasn’t there. A better movie with similar themes would be
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My Review - 6/10
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