Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Console best movie i've ever seen.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

bob dole There is not a false emotion running through In Memory Of My Father. It maintains a screwball sense of absurdity but paces itself to allow the humanism to shine through. Despite the dark tone, the likeably unlikeable ensemble cast is uniformly excellent, and there are some real laughs to be had. Hand-held cameras and semi-improvised dialogue lend it realism, while the flurry of well-crafted comic situations it creates brings it to heights of hilarity. Jaymes and his cast mates nail the characters and the dialogue and there's more than a whiff of Festen and Altman in this frantic, enjoyably overstuffed funeral drama. It's hilarious and so heart warming. Highly recommended

jhyde85 Chris Jaymes does an excellent job of giving his audience what the big studios can't seem to, a unique, enjoyable, worth your money and time experience with out resorting to throwing tens of millions of dollars into special effects for that "shock and awe" factor. While the movie is about a dysfunctional Hollywood family we all are likely to find a character or situation we can relate to particularly if we are from LA or NY. I've watched the film three times and have enjoyed it more each time. There is so much going on with the number of characters and fast pace, that it is difficult to pick it all up the first time around. Additionally, it is just one of those films that you can watch over and over again and I would bet that it will be a cult classic.

AbyssGlyder With 'In Memory of My Father', relatively new auteur Christopher Jaymes has created the perfect depiction of loss, depression, selfishness, love, and jealousy as applied to one family.How do we deal with loss? We drink. We get high. We have sex. We escape from loss, but the characters in 'In Memory…' get no such escape. Even with sex, drugs, and alcohol none can escape the hell dad's death has created. It takes the length of the film for the brothers to discover what has actually happened: that they are alone, that their father is exactly the man they remember, and that they always knew it. They can't escape their past, they can't escape their present, and they're damned to a future that resembles that of their father's life. Surrounded by family, but dying alone. The aesthetic style of 'In Memory…' evokes a slight documentary feel, much like 'The Office' and 'Arrested Development'. Characters address the cameras, but as the story progresses, we leave the device behind and focus on the drama, comedy, and the bitingly funny stirring of the soul that develops. Witty, poignant, brilliant, filled with squeamishly uncomfortable moments and mouth-agape situations, 'In Memory…' is most honest movie to come along this year, and I only hope Jaymes is able to continue making films of this caliber.

nodandsmile333 This film captured the essence of what it is to be human. All of the characters were 'flawed' in some obviously fundamental way, but they were extremely lovable and easy to relate to. It would have been really easy to fall into the trap of taking a slightly flattened caricature type and using their particular dysfunction as a laugh gimmick, but each of the characters were totally unique and round and real. At some point in the film each of them does something that could seem totally deplorable but we've been watching and not only do we understand why it happens, it seems like a logical step and we've probably been there at some point ourselves. It lends itself to be used as a tool in cutting yourself some slack. This is one of the only films I've seen recently that allows for dysfunction to be completely endearing. It's also rare to genuinely like all of the characters, and I do. In a cinematic world filled with perfect protagonists and 'bad guy' villains with obvious motives, this film is refreshingly true to life. Watching it was a pleasure and I left liking myself more than when I went in.Also, what a soundtrack!The screenwriter also wrote and performed most of the songs in the film.