Astronaut

For a film about the joy and value of expanding your horizons, whatever your age, its outlook is irksomely blinkered.

Dreyfuss remains as fine-tuned and charming an actor as he did the first time he stared longingly up at the heavens.

Ultimately, I believed in this character, whose dreams were so obviously unfulfillable...I thought that worked rather well.

All of this would be promising territory were Astronaut an offbeat senior-versus-the-world comedy directed by, say, Alexander Payne.

Sitting somewhere between The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and something slightly more earnest, this charming tale of triumph over adversity does its best with some admittedly limited resources.

A likable performance by Richard Dreyfuss livens up this easygoing drama about second chances and late-life adventure from actor-turned-director Shelagh McLeod.

Richard Dreyfuss certainly proves that at the age of 72, he still has “The Right Stuff” with an out of this world performance that will move you to tears. A heart-warming tale of never given up on your dreams.

A sweet story of an old man struggling with the feeling of outliving his own usefulness.

Makes some obvious choices that prevent it from fully taking flight - a dance sequence at the nursing home is particularly awful - but has enough to say about aging and following your dreams to earn it a look for family audiences.

Astronaut is a reflective and heartwarming tale of ageing that is let down simply by not settling comfortably on the story it wants to be.