Directed by:
Rob ReinerScreenplay:
Mark AndrusCinematography:
Reed MoranoComposer:
Marc ShaimanCast:
Michael Douglas, Diane Keaton, Sterling Jerins, Annie Parisse, Austin Lysy, Maxwell Simkins, Maurice Jones, Yaya DaCosta, Scott Shepherd, Andy Karl (more)Plots(1)
There are a million reasons not to like realtor Oren Little (Michael Douglas), and that's just the way he likes it. Willfully obnoxious to anyone who might cross his path, he wants nothing more than to sell one last house and retire in peace and quiet. His wife Sarah Beth passed away years ago, so while awaiting his big real estate break, he's biding his time in the waterfront four-plex building he owns – "Little Shangri-La" – surrounded by neighbors who have formed a close-knit community that he mostly avoids when he's not barking about how noisy their kids are or taking heat for hogging the whole driveway with his classic Mercedes Benz convertible. Even kindly Leah (Diane Keaton), who persists in inviting Oren to participate in mojito happy hour despite his cranky demeanor, gets rebuffed. His only real friend, fellow realtor Claire (Frances Sternhagen), gets a pass because of their decades-long history and the fact that she can dish out snark and sarcasm as well as he can even when he's at his eye-rolling worst. Oren's life gets turned upside-down when his estranged son Luke (Scott Shepherd) appears out of the blue, asking him to temporarily care for the nine-year-old granddaughter (Sterling Jerins) Oren never knew existed. With Sarah (named after Oren's late wife) literally being left on his doorstep, Oren grudgingly agrees to take her in but quickly pawns her off on Leah, who is too moved by Sarah's sadness at being apart from her father to balk – at first – at Oren's absurd expectation that she'll just handle everything so he can resume his life uninterrupted. But Leah's got her own path to figure out, trying to find her second act as a lounge singer -- which might bring her more success if she could just get through a set without telling stories of her late husband and fleeing the stage in tears leaving her band, led by doting pianist Artie (Rob Reiner), to fend for themselves. (official distributor synopsis)
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A typical American comedy of average quality, where if it weren't for truly great actors, you'd probably overlook it easily. Douglas excels in every role, as does Keaton. It's just a shame that it's all so predictable and it elicits emotions from you exactly as expected. If it weren't for the sentimentality, it would have definitely been better.
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No country for young men. I hope my retirement will be as leisurely, undramatic, painless and soothingly predictable as this film. At the same time, however, I hope that it will have more humour and less lounge singing by Diane Keaton. Our parents and grandparents deserve more imaginative films than this; Diane Keaton, Michael Douglas and Rob Reiner deserve a more inspiring screenplay. 40%
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A cute, inoffensive American movie with Michael Douglas, who portrays a punk who likes nobody and at the same time is loved by nobody. But his behavior over time arouses compassion in some of the neighbors and so with the emergence of this compassion emotions are created, which can fill the pleasantly passing hour and a half of the movie, which reminded me too much of Something’s Gotta Give with a lack of scenes worthy of remembering.
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