Fighting to Get to the Good Stuff

Rating: 6/10 (15 June 2013)

I know I am an outlier on this one. I though the movie was tender and had a few good parts. I liked it when the grandpa suddenly gave props to the dad, and said he was proud of him for starting something on his own. I liked when the little girl went over to the depressed brother, and just her touching his shoulder cheered him up. Finally, I liked the end when they all were dancing together. But I realize I liked these parts because they were the only happy parts in the movie. The rest of the movie was kind of stressful to watch. Bad things happen, they are being rude and hateful to each other, funny carefree grandpa dies of a heroin overdose, and in the end everyone failed at everything they were trying to achieve. I guess they did achieve at one thing, which was finally coming together and getting along. But geez. That was a lot of yelling and serious topics of suicide and drug abuse to get through. I dunno. The little girl was a great actress, and all the characters and acting were really well done. It did leave a kind of happy feeling with the dance at the end, but overall not my favorite movie. Don't get me wrong, this is a great movie, it's just that I get more stressed then enjoyment with the dysfunctional family story. Don't listen to me though, if you haven't seen this, you probably should (judgegina.com).