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Wonderful Movie
KnotMissPriceless
Why so much hype?
SpunkySelfTwitter
It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.
Taraparain
Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.
dnjsthd
The house of the protagonist Frank(Robert De Niro) who died with his wife a while ago seems comfortable, but it feels lonesome.Scraping the outer grass or organizing the inside of the house does not give the person a special vitality. Before my wife leaves this world, the kids already have a lot of walls and leave him You are cold inside the house so he will wait for the day the children will visit and wait.In order to entertain a good meal for children, he purchases good wines with large marts and also buys good quality meat and buys good performance barbecue grills.But my son and daughters who decided to return home on the weekend of consecutive holidays cancel cancellation of a sudden visit, and I will be home to all of your child's house directly.After that, the contents are composed by the talk which we stay at each child's house. It feels a bit like an omnibus style composition.Father who sees and feels all the difficult journey of the child and leaves the love of sadness and sympathy and comes home by lung disease.Frank who lost his medicine for pulmonary disease while complaining about the vague while traveling is supposed to return to the house where the flakes are about to fall. This time I will take an airplane for the first time in my life. However, myocardial infarction occurs during flight and it is dispatched to the hospital.Ironically, all the family gathers in Frank's bed.I believed in the death of my son, from before that, the cruelty that the truth that he knew is afraid, and a gentle lie the children gifts gifts. Frank is confused to the flood of the truth that has come out suddenly, the movie carries it with a warm gaze as well.People who played the role of father perform actingly like the actress Robert DeNiro, who enters near the child on behalf of his wife, but who is already a distant father like a modern father who had already been too far away.A unique star actor representing Hollywood such as Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell and Drew Barrymore appeared in this impressive drama, making the movie even more brilliant.Especially emotional performance that emerges from years of experience of Robert De Niro and comfortable performance without the power of young actors is enough for the audience to feel the excitement through resection..
studioAT
This is a slow moving comedy, that tries to be both funny and dramatic at the same time, and manages to convey neither overly successfully.It gets bogged down by too many slow scenes, and drips with sentimentality at times.It's hard to work out whether De Niro is underreacting to everything as an acting choice or whether he's just bored by the material he's being asked to deliver.Things perk up a little bit once Drew Barrymore (always lovely) and Sam Rockwell (always reliable) pop up, but they can't save a film that's going nowhere.
rkhen
Thank God I didn't read the dreary reviews before watching this movie. For some reason, lots of people find it "depressing". (Which depresses me, since Everybody's Fine is an accurate reflection of real life. Maybe someone's in denial?) And professional critics for the most part don't find it... something... enough. But I'm a critical viewer, and I loved it. Robert DeNiro is brilliant and completely recognisable as a father of grown kids. Maybe the people who didn't like it are just too young to have been there: men of my father's generation and before, who thought their main job was to make money and hector their kids into "succeeding" during the few minutes per week they spent together. I knew this character the instant I saw him; the opening scene -- which has no dialogue -- says it all. The dad is also deeply sympathetic, which isn't easy in a movie based on his past mistakes. But I love this guy. If you knew him in real life, you will too. But what makes Everybody's Fine so powerful is that it's a mystery; clues drop subtly, around a main character who isn't as dumb, or as inflexible, as his family thinks he is. We figure out the truth along with him. The white-lying portrayed is also completely realistic; the unanswered questions kept me trying to solve the mystery.The grown kids (whom the father still tellingly calls "my children") are a bit stock, I'll give the critics that. But the performances are good; better than some reviewers have allowed. Each one is simultaneously the same and different; again, realistic. And the grandson is brilliant. Lucian Maisel manages to play it just teenaged enough to be real (and charming), without quite stepping over the line to obnoxious. He's sarcastic and outspoken, but remains inside the story. If you haven't seen this movie, stop reading the reviews. See it and make up your own mind. I'm glad I did.
someguy2013
"Everybody's Fine" should instead be called "Everybody's in Denial"(or maybe just Robert Deniro's character). I bought this at a thrift store, and it was not worth the money even at that low price. I bought this mainly because Kate Beckinsale is in it, but I also like Robert Deniro. I was expecting something lighthearted, but this was one of the most depressing movies I've ever seen. The back cover promises that you will "laugh and cry". I certainly didn't laugh. What little attempts at humor are in this are not at all funny. I didn't literally cry, but I sure felt worse for watching it. Maybe it was expecting something similar to Deniro's character in the "Meet the Parents" series, but all I got was a sad depressed old man. Not that Deniro's acting(or anyone else's) was bad in this movie, the story was just huge downer. It's about a guy after his wive dies, and his children practically never talk to him. They would talk to their mother more, and now that she's gone they rarely if ever call their dad. The idea that children talk to their mother more is believable, but now they have HUGE things going on in their lives that they don't even bother to mention to their dad. They even go way out of their way to deceive him when he goes to visit. Can a family really be like this? It just doesn't seem believable.