Product: Everybody's Fine (2009)
Rating: 4.0
Everybody's Fine
This was a pleasant, but not comedic, look at a dysfunctional family in which the adult, geographically distant children protected their privacy and kept the discovery of self preceived failures in their lives from their widowed father by limiting contact to the very minimum. The acting was excellent but the script was a bit "by the numbers", although still enjoyable. A father's unrelenting pursuit of his children while coping with his loneliness, and they with their various crises, reinforced for them his enduring love and support, allaying their fears of being judged for being "imperfect". The need to reconnect before it was too late, was the emotional incentive.