liked it

Rating: 9/10 (29 May 2005)

My wife and I rented this movie for our anniversary and both enjoyed it.
One thing I really liked was the characters were all reasonable and seemingly real people. They behaved as real people would behave.
There was a lot of emotion, and we actually cared what happened to the people.
I guess my criticism is that they gave the ending away a little too early. We both thought there would be one last twist to the story, but there wasn't.
We thought we had it figured out that she ended up going with Lon but Noah was the one to join her when she needed him the most in the nursing home. Thought that would have been a good ending. And the kids visiting the home then would have been her kids, but not his, except for the one different looking one who was the product of the affair she had with him.
Our idea anyway, but we were both satisfied with the movie the way it was.
We cared what happened.
One last thing - we thought the girl's dad was kind of weird compared to the other people in the movie. Kind of a cartoonish character which clashed with the other earthtone real people.