Product: Everybody's Fine (2009)
Rating: 1.0
Simple family story polluted by Hollywood corruption
This movie can serve as an illustration of how Hollywood corruption works. Obviously, all Hollywood fare is not_pure_evil; the BKs who run Tinsletown wouldn't make enough money to come near slaking their insatiable avarice if they_only_put out movies like "American Pie" or the "Saw" franchise. Everyone knows that family movies (rated PG-13, PG and G) bring in the most money. However, these evil men who control the movie industry just can't resist inserting at least a smidgen of their poisonous values into even the most innocent movies. We've all noticed it: the sexual innuendo in the children's cartoon; the gratuitous nudity in the historical drama; the vulgar profanity in the kids' adventure; the glorification of immoral relationships, or at least their portrayal as something totally ok; the mockery of the traditional family, of parental authority, of religion; and just the basic inversion of decency and American Christian mores in almost every product Hollywood offers. The dream masters of Hollyweird just have to spit in our faces a little bit, even when serving us otherwise wholesome fare. I don't know about you, but just a little bit of poison in my meal spoils the whole dish.This is a movie about a recently widowed man whose far-flung children stand him up on a planned family get-together. The father sets out on a cross country trip to visit them and discovers that none of them are doing as well in their relationships or careers as they had claimed. The moral of the story, as we are later informed, was that the father pushed them too hard when they were kids, so now they lie to him to live up to his expectations. That in itself is a bit problematic as a moral, but... whatever. The aforementioned Hollywood corruption manifests itself in 1. the daughter's lesbian relationship, which the family ends up accepting as perfectly normal, and 2. by some pretty shocking blasphemies. I have known some pretty profane people, and I have never heard any of them say "F***ing Christ". I don't think Bobby DeNiro uttered such a phrase in "Goodfellas" or "Casino", but he says it here in this PG-13 family drama, playing a grandfather speaking to his grandson. Is it a Cabbalistic thing? Or is it just plain malice and perversion? Do these people really get off so much on forcing mainly Christian audiences to hear their God blasphemed like that?