Still Mine (2012) is a sad movie about two aging souls. I am sure the first time I saw this one I thought it was touching. Now, watching it again I see an old man unwilling to accept progress and impatiently unable to accept his wife's burgeoning dementia. But the stars are terrific - James Cromwell as Craig Morrison, and Geneviève Bujold as Irene Morrison. They were both youngish when the movie was made, 72 and 70, respectively. Unless I missed something, although he staunchly refused to comply with the building codes, he eventually does essentially satisfy them. Probably the most irritating aspect of Morrison's activities is his compulsive grasping of material things, including the valuable, autographed baseball and his two thousand acres of land, basically unused. Morrison's innate stubbornness refuses to cash in some of his useless material possessions for the cash to have a proper house built is inexcusable. Yet, that is exactly why the audience is supposed to find him a sympathetic character. Cromwell is no Arthur Hoggett.
Review of Still Mine
