Typical Hollywood posing as something different.

Rating: 3/10 (16 August 2015)

The film gets three stars instead of one because of good acting, and escapes a one star rating that it's pretentious story line deserves.
The film is about a washed up older Hollywood movie star of action hero films. The main character is about 60, and doing Broadway like so many do. It has the pace and score of an art house movie , but at it's core is about as typical a Hollywood movie as you can get.
It is supposedly about a guy struggling to make an artistic play after enjoying the luxuries afforded by making a lifetime of lucrative schlock. However, it is really about a Dad who feels guilty about not being a good father. He feels like he was a bad father, but in any other universe than America today he would be considered a great Dad. He was rich , famous, did not abuse his daughter, so what is the problem? Ahhhhhhhh! He wasn't THERE, AHHHHHHH!
No matter that our grandparents were whipped regularly and went hungry during the great depression, had to work at 13 and still loved their parents; but only in America today can writers portray a guy who feels suicidally guilty for having worked long hours, had a mistress, and was emotionally not there 24/7.
In in other place today, or even any other time here, it is only in American that the male can be SHAMED for working hard and providing riches to his family because it resulted in a couple of missed recitals and a ball game. It is as if writers have a wealthy, neurotic woman's group whispering in their ears, and they keep showing us the same story. "I should not have filmed the kids birth because it MADE ME MISS THE MOMENT" (Even though I only filmed it because I thought I was supposed to, and watching the baby pop out made me less interested in sex with MOM). These kinds of films encourage women to kick good men to the curb , no wonder our divorce rate is so high.
Instead of watching this, just tune into any Lifetime channel show. You can see men shamed in the same way, for being what would have been considered the perfect Dad a few generations ago, but is shamed and humiliated for working late in our great country today.