I wanted so much to like this movie, but it kept running off the track.
The actors themselves all did a fine job at portraying the people they tried to be, but either the story itself was terribly wrong and "out of touch", or the Director had small understanding for the subject of grief over a loved one, or decision making processes altogether.
The lead character lost his wife two years before the beginning of this tale...but still grieves to the extent that he has turned into a more than occasional drunk, and neither his dysfunctional parents, nor his best friend have been able to help him get on with his life.
Beau Bridges lays the father of the lead...and all but one scene Bridges character appears in, is just another occasion for Bridges' character to drink.
The "mom" is one of those "helicopter mom's"...even when the lead is supposed to be around 40?
The lead character wears an old U.S.Army field jacket, (which makes me think he is supposed to be a veteran), but throughout the movie this man cannot make a single decision, is constantly lieing, and deceives all in his life, for no reason!
He literally has no motive, nothing to profit from it, but is dishonest with himself, his friends, everybody.
The end of the movie will make you feel you were eating a five course meal and had to leave...by force...after being given the bread basket and the check.
I just feel the story had the skeleton of what could have been a really good movie...should have NEVER been listed as a "comedy", considering the story line), and instead I felt treated to a movie thought up by a third grade school class.
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