Product: Everybody's Fine (2009)
Rating: 3.0
Maybe Kirk Jones doesn't remember he read Anne Tyler
This movie watches like a book. I was surprised to find out the director Kirk Jones had also written this script. I was sure I had read this story in one of those awful women's novels about sad, isolated mom or dad who don't know how to reach out to their oblivious offspring. Of course, you cannot go wrong with DeNiro, his performances are always satisfying but it simply is not enough. There is nothing of interest here. It's sad, it's lonely, it takes too long to set up and too many things play out in an achingly obvious but frustrating way (hasn't Dad ever heard Wal-Mart, to name just one place, can fill a prescription anywhere in the country? All he had to do is call the doctor and tell him what happened.). This is what had my husband saying "I would have been pissed if I had paid to see this in a theater".