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A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

A simple movie, kinda slow but worthwhile filmed entirely in black & white. Will Forte is really good in this; charming, sweet and funny -in a dark, dry way. He plays 'David Grant', a devoted son who drives his grumpy booze addled father from Billings Montana to Lincoln Nebraska so that he can collect a million dollar "prize" he claims to have won in a Mega sweep stakes lottery. For the most part this is a road trip movie and kinda sad as Bruce Dern is elderly and losing his marbles. There is of course no prize and everybody but dad knows it. David however sees the trip as an opportunity to connect, maybe get to know his dad before its too late. The trip gets waylaid in small town central Nebraska, where his father grew up and everyone seems to have a score to settle.Bruce Dern is perfect as Woody, cranky and bitter. Also worth a mention is Stacy Keach, a real bastard from his dads past. June Squibb is the mom and Bob Odenkirk from Breaking Bad 'Saul' fame the brother. What a family.

I have never heard of this film or anyone involved in it, when I finished it I din't understand why because this film is amazingly done, one of the few that has the honor of calling it a motion picture, a form of art, that is what it is: art. Strating with a cinematography that not anyone dares to use, and in here work with a sense of pure beauty. Then the film edition was one of the things that impressed me the most, it changes of scene so delicate and profound just perfectly to the screenplay. The actors with amazing performances, just when I thought they can't do better, they just overcome my expectations and did it ten times more amazing. This type of screenplay is the one of my favorites, from a story that some people think is boring, for me are the ones where you can take the best of it; starting with something simple, that seemed hopeless, but then with the characters that also lived simple lives, but each one of them had their virtues and ideas to live for, a history behind them. I also loved the reality in the film. The dialogue they used is like gold transformed into words. and then the music that showed tranquility in a place where a lot of negative but not terrible things happened. This are the kind of films that should last forever.If you like classics this one will fill you with joy. I loved every second and minute of it.

This is yet another movie I never heard of that I suddenly discovered on a 14+ hour plane ride from Hong Kong to Dallas. The plot is fairly straightforward and the characters genuine. All of the actors do an excellent job of making you forget they are actors. The small turns and twists keep it engaging without getting too far-fetched. It had me engrossed all the way through the closing credits, and some aspects of it really hit home (Bruce Dern reminded me of my late father in many ways).I doubt this film won any major awards but it should have. It was creative and endearing, and most importantly, a topic many of us can connect to. Make the effort to find this movie, it is touching and worth the time!

Alexander Payne directs "Nebraska". Another of the director's "road movies", it stars Bruce Dern as Woody Grant, an elderly man who thinks he's won a million dollars. In an attempt to collect his winnings, Grant journeys from Montana to Nebraska. Joining him is his son David (Will Forte)."Nebraska" recalls "The Last Picture Show", "Paris, Texas" and David Lynch's "The Straight Story". Like those films, it portrays a world in decline, dreams shattered, hopes dashed and aspirations stifled. Where "Nebraska" differs from its siblings is in the way its characters all parasitize one another. Everyone's extinguishing the dreams of someone else or using someone else to make their own desires come true. As a result, Payne's cast drift like bodies sucked dry by vampires, forlorn, dying, or on the verge of surrender. Even the film's million dollar prize is but a scam by a magazine company. Even the film's aesthetic – chilly blacks and whites – suggests a world sucked dry of life and leached of all colour. Even the film's settings, lonely and abandoned, suggest a world in decay. Even the film's...But David refuses to abide. He begins to empathise with his father, who longs for heaps of money and a brand new truck. The film's million dollar prize, David comes to realise, has become his father's last ditch attempt to reverse a lifetime of disappointment. "All he wanted was to sleep, was to dream of escape," characters say in "Paris, Texas". Woody Grant seeks a similar flight from reality. It's a flight which David facilitates. He buys his father a new truck and lets him drive it through his old home town; the bragging rights of an insecure man. An unappreciated man. And, at times, a monster of a man.Alfred Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt", one of the first films to subvert America's Norman Rockwellesque image of herself, ended with a little girl lying so that The American Dream might be preserved. "Nebraska" ends in a similar way. Neither David nor Woody really believe that a million dollars have been won, or that a life has been salvaged, but they choose to believe anyway. They choose to preserve a myth.Like most of Payne's films, "Nebraska's" female characters are poorly written and/or used as easy comedic props. Still, Bruce Dern is excellent as Woody and Will Forte is fine in a rare serious role. Elsewhere the film offers some nice landscape shots, all sad and wistful. June Squibb co-stars.7.9/10 – See "Away from Her" and "Paris, Texas".