Bill Paxton, Bruce McGill, Chris Klein
Jason Prayer (Webber) doesn’t care about football, but that’s just one reason he’s an outsider in the football-obsessed Nebraska city where he grew up. To escape his dead-end existence, Jason retreats...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 4, 2008
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February 7, 2009Jason Prayer (Mark Webber) hasn't had an easy go of things. His father recently committed suicide, and he tries to support his mother by working at a gas station as well as helping out Gus (Harry Dean Stanton) at a classic film house. As he tries to cope with life's pain, he gets...( read more)
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January 2, 2009A bit outside the norm here, this one makes you really think about what is and what could be. A great little plot twist that makes the movie towards the end. The end to me was left kinda open I had been watching movies for about 8 hours recovering from New Years Eve so I may have...( read more)
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October 20, 2009great movie and shows even if all in your sourrunding is bad are some great things in life and never to chose the easy way.
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September 28, 2009La historia de Jason, donde la vida es cualquier cosa menos buena, igualmente el desenlace hace reflexionar.
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September 8, 2009"It's the road ahead and the road behind. It's the first step and the last and every one in between, because they all make up the good life."
Once the movie ended, I could say I actually enjoyed this a little bit. I mean, it's kind of a poorly executed film, but has an incredibl...( read more) -
June 4, 2009I don't really think his good life was really all that good, at least until the end you keep wondering about the title.
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April 19, 2009ZOOEY Deschannel is really opening my eyes as a talented actress...one look in those eyes of honesty of hers holds me captivated as she goes through the script she held in this epic of a movie...being trapped in her life she found the perfect escape through the befriending and re...( read more)
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February 7, 2009Mark Webber, Zooey Deschensel and an all time favorite of mine Harry Dean Stanton all bring wonderful performances in their roles here. Harry Dean at age 82 still one of the best character actors out there. This is a semi auto-biorgraphical story of writer and first time direct...( read more)
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