Mostly Joyless

Rating: 4/10 (6 January 2016)

Here's the great cast from the "Silver Lining Playbook" reunited with the director but it doesn't work. Perhaps you can't get excited about a mop?
The movie lacks pace. It is too long, slow and choppy. The male leads are wasted. De Niro has nothing much to do or say. Cooper is a one note cheerleader. The women are slightly better written then the male character.
There is an annoying a out of TV soap opera scenes. The story is supposedly being told from the grandmother's point of view, even after she has passed on.
The problem is you are expecting better and it is not much more then a made for Lifetime cable movie. No need to see it in a theater, it will be just as boring on a home platform.