Everybody's Fine
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.
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- Cast:
- Robert De Niro , Drew Barrymore , Kate Beckinsale , Sam Rockwell , Melissa Leo , Damian Young , James Frain
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Disappointment for a huge fan!
Best movie ever!
It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
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..
I really enjoyed this film, as depressing as it was. I was already soaked with tears 30 minutes in, possibly exacerbated by the fact that my family is 7500km away. The character choices were great, and the reality of the family relationships made it very relatable. Parents and kids relationships change when the children become adults, and shifting loyalties cause strains in those relationships that were previously well-defined. It does annoy me when people act as if our elders are already part of history, like they're not still alive and there to enjoy and share with. Movies like this make me hope that they can be catalysts for change. That's all I can write now, because I want to Skype with my family... that's what this movie did to me.
Robert Deniro plays a widower who has just retired from a factory job that last 30 years.. now it's time for the annual family reunion,, except for the fact all four of his kids call and cancel on him, so taking this in stride, and against his dr's orders he sets out on a cross country trip to see what's up with all of his estranged kids. Is there life going the way he thinks it is.. or how they tell him,, well he will soon find out the answers one way or another and to his chagrin probably won't like the answers he gets.. He travels to Denver, NYC, Chicago, and finally Las Vegas, and along the way there are some funny monents,, some heartwarming ones,, and some gut wrenching sad ones, as he finally finds out what's going on with his family, and finds out why none of them wanted to come visit him in the first place..,, very good movie,, a little sad,, but very touching.
Because my sister recommended this last year, I finally ordered this from Netflix and just watched it with my mom. It stars Robert De Niro as a recently widowed father who, having been told by three of his four grown children that they can't come home for the holidays, decides to visit them unexpectedly at where they all live. The three he visits are played by Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, and Drew Barrymore. The fourth is mostly referred to until near the end. I'll stop there and just say this was a nice change of pace for De Niro, usually known to me for his violent movies he made with Martin Scorsese, as he mostly gives a restrained performance here and pretty well, too. The others are also good in what their roles require of them. There are also some dream sequences of the offspring as children that also provided some interesting insights of what De Niro's character thinks and knows they're not telling him that I also liked. Oh, and Paul McCartney's song during the end credits was also touching. So on that note, Everybody's Fine gets a recommendation from me.