As a director, George Clooney’s filmography has veered through different genres (most recently from the frigid edges of earth into outer space in the big scale epic The Midnight Sky). But I d…
) whose only dream is a seemingly impossible one of seeing her son get into an Ivy League school. It is all simply the stuff of life as he rolls around town with Charlie in his Uncle’s signature dream convertible, or soaks in knowledge from the unlikely customers of thatThe film’s second half focuses on J.R.
It is fortunate Amazon is giving it a theatrical run in December before its January streaming premiere, so the lucky ones among us might have the collective experience of sharing it together. This is the kind of movie I remember seeing as a kid, and, in fact, it reminded me of a film humanist director Frank Capra might have made, something likecentered on the relationship of a spirited boy and his down-on-his-luck father and extended family in a Miami hotel.
As a bar owner with keen intellect, Affleck traverses some choice dialogue and monologues to deliver an unforgettable portrait of the uncle you wishhad. Max Casella, Michael Braun, and Matthew Delamater are wonderful as the bar regulars who dispense life advice to J.R. Martini is imposing as the unlikeable father, and a special shout-out to the inimitable Sondra James, who died last month.
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