Washed up aging star does Broadway, deals with family and career issues

Rating: 2/10 (9 June 2016)

As I read the other reviews I didn't feel like anybody else "got it". This was just the same old story of the man fading into older age and dealing with basic family and career issues most of us do, except he was a movie star previously so everything is sort of magnified. Being a contemporary piece of the course the man is suppose to feel constantly guilty about almost everything, in spite of the fact that he was the one footing the bills.
Michael Keaton's character is a 60ish guy with a washed up super hero career doing Broadway. So far so credible. He is reviewing his life in his head all the time, basically feeling weird about the fact that he was a commercial sell out making millions selling us schlock . He decides he is going to make "art" with the Broadway thing, not unlike some billionaire developer building an art museum to ease his guilt about the falling apart cracker boxes he pushed 30 years ago ( are you listening, MOCA?).
The problem with the story is not that it is wrapped in a pretentious , artsy package, but that it's basic message is one that is at the root of America's main problem today. That is that men should be shamed and are guilty, no matter that his family would have starved without him.
In this story Keaton's daughter is set to inherit some Malibu house, and their is no mention that she is about as worthless as mammary glands on a roster. An addicted airhead, the writers seem to assume she deserves financial security as some sort of birth right. On yea, the man who paid for rehab and presumably gave her a life of luxury for 20 years should just go kill himself at the end, hopefully making it easier for her to get all his jack.
Hollywood writers seem to really believe this is "No country for old men", but they should stop and think that if it were not for old men, there would be nobody to build and maintain the houses they live in, and nobody to bequeath said homes to worthless, non working offspring. In this film Keaton is feeling constantly guilty about "not being there" for his daughter. Well, he was off at work providing for her and that Malibu house, so maybe you should let him stick around.