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, 93% Audience Score
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4.0 stars; Thank you Billy Crystal for giving us a movie that made us sincerely laugh and cry.. Not many movies can do that today. What I thought was unique about this movie was how it snuck up on you.. When it first starts out, it's like a Woody Allan comedy... lots of esoteric jokes. So, It was very funny with good punchlines to begin. But after a while, it didn't seem like this movie could go anywhere with this shallow store line. Then all of a sudden, the drama kicks in and the film becomes serious. Somehow, the mixture of comedy and tragic drama worked so well with an excellent script by Crystal and Alan Zweibel. I thought the concept in itself was so clever. The plot involves a comedy writer who is developing dementia in his later stage of life. His challenge is to try to capture his life in writing before he forgets it. The acting was excellent, as you would expect.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    Writer-director Billy Crystal provides a genuine humorous draw in smoothly building up the story's true emotional center that sensitively tackles and speaks volumes with harrow introspection hardening the sympathetic direction. Resonates satisfyingly stemming from the eventual thematic connection by relation via outer perspective, ending with a meaningful statement capping the solid script. Honestly the first half finds casual chemistry fueled jokingly with enough edge towards its given rating till the second half finds the characters in better conditions as they started performing their best under serious turns with empathetic tears reacting to the given struggles they're facing. You'd mainly expect the humorous comedy's generational clash stirring a nice chemistry from the two comedic leads, but you'll be surprised at how they tackle their chosen topic with such capably firm grip. (B+)
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    Funny, heartwarming, riveting....Billy and Tiff are truly awesome.
  • Rating: 0.5 out of 5 stars
    Omg this was not a good movie. Felt like an aged vanity project for Billy Crystal
  • Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    This is a very touching story. It can be funny. It can be sad. It can make you angry. It can make you feel happy. I think it's unfortunate that critics seem unable to accept that a film can cover a range of human emotions and stay held together tightly.
  • Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
    Uneven at points, but overall a lovely look at an older man facing late in life mental issues and the person that he meets that keeps him tethered. May we all find someone like her as we near the end.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    Amazing how a drama is handled with such sensitivity and sweetness,as the story unfolds you get to find yourself as part of a story and realise how important forgiveness is.Funny moments also render it pleasing and an easy to watch movie.Absolutely must see!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    Very sweet, very real, very nice. And, funny.
  • Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    A very nice movie combing both comedy and drama at a great proportion. All actors are great. A must see in my opinion
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    I thought it was a great movie about friendship between a young black woman and an older white man. Purely friendship and love for each other. It displayed healing and passion and forgiveness. Loved It!!