Drama
A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.
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Susan Sarandon
Lily
Kate Winslet
Jennifer
Mia Wasikowska
Anna
Sam Neill
Tom
Rainn Wilson
Michael
Bex Taylor-Klaus
Chris
Anson Boon
Jonathan
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It looks like this movie got panned by a lot of reviewers for taking a familiar plot (dying character wants to gather family together before suicide) and does nothing miraculous or stunning with it.
I enjoyed the movie. Susan Sarandon and Sam O’Neill rarely disappoint, and the ensemble supporting cast did a credible job. There is a lot of humor, some of it dark humor by the dying character, and a strong script overall, in my opinion. Even the supporting characters are well-developed - no two-dimensional stereotypes that I could identify.
I guess my standard is a bit lower than some of the elite reviewers I read on another website. I want to be entertained and not have my intelligence insulted. Check and check.
As a side note, I watched this movie just after seeing The Goldfinch. Maybe I should have re-watched Bird Man and completed the avian trifecta?
narrator5607 May, 2021
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