Just plain dull

Rating: 5/10 (13 January 2020)

Very slice of life. But I don't recognize any of the life that's being sliced. And I am a theater person - who's been through a divorce. There are moments of poignancy, but the film swings between overblown sentimentality and being just plain dull.
The leads are dull, the script is dull, and although Ms. Dern and Mr. Alda know what they're doing, Julie Hagerty's over-the-top turn as the mother is like something out of a "Carol Burnett Show" sketch.
There's no new insight here about marriage, parenthood, or divorce that hasn't been done much more skillfully in "Kramer vs. Kramer," or in any given episode of "This is Us."