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6.3/10   345 votes
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Director:
Andrew Wagner
Writer:
Andrew Wagner (writer)
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Genre:
Comedy | Drama
Tagline:
A character driven comedy
Plot:
A retired New York City couple drive across country to reconnect with their reclusive son, joined by their two unmarried daughters. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
Ernest Hemingway Biopic in Early Development
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An easy look at hard truths more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Allen Wagner ... Allen
Judy Wagner ... Judy

Emily Wagner ... Emily

Maggie Wagner ... Maggie

Judy Dixon ... Bumby

Billy Wirth ... Billy
Andrew Wagner ... Andrew
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tom Hines ... Disgruntled Actor

Bret Roberts ... Healer
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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:98 min | USA:97 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Filming Locations:
Chicago, Illinois, USA more

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3 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
An easy look at hard truths, 16 January 2007
7/10
Author: Ben7 from Los Angeles, California

Most films have protagonists between the ages of 25 and 45. In childhood and adolescence, one identifies with them as grownups. As the years pass, the view becomes as contemporaries. I've only gotten as far as late middle age, but at this point, while I can be lulled into a sort of suspension of disbelief and view characters 15 years my junior at eye level, more and more, I identify with their parents. This is abetted as the boomer generation ages, and many people now long in the tooth formed their adult identities during and after the values shift of the 1960's.

That said, when you look at the Wagners' relationship from the vantage point of a certain age, one can understand why two people bonded by parenthood and hard experience through the years might persist in a union where romantic love is a distant memory. Familiarity, trust, recollection of how much worse other potential mates were during one's dating years, and fear of going it alone make their presence felt. In your 50's or your 70's, one wonders "Who would want me now?"

For most of us, this is as happy an ending as we're going to get, like it or not. There comes a time when one is too tired, too sick, and/or too set in one's ways to start over yet again. Successfully rearing a child has its rewards, and as libido wanes, sometimes that's enough. One's acrimonious relationship with one's mate can be a shelter without alternative.

This film takes an unflinching look at these realities...what is, as opposed as to what "should be," to borrow a distinction often made by Lenny Bruce. Acceptance is the last of the seven stages of grief. Or to quote an old Country/Western song title, "It's not love...but it's not bad."

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