Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Micitype Pretty Good

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

highdesert420-685-360885 My good friend Jerry Watson turned me on to this movie after he bought it on LaserDisc. (remember those?) This is definitely Sam Rockwell's best work, and possibly John Turturro's as well. I've seen all of their movies and they're great in everything. It's not a mainstream action-packed thriller with explosions and plot twists, it's just a feel-good drama with a simple story line. Obviously not for everyone. The scenery is fantastic. The script is well written with lots of subtle situational humor. Great supporting cast, especially Lisa Blount's and Katherine Keener's characters. Even the unlikable characters are likable, if that makes any sense. (No spoilers) The movie is about an electrical engineer named Al Fountain (John Turturro) who is a perfectly straight, OCD type of guy who starts to see things moving in reverse after discovering his first gray hair. He's having a mid- life crisis and doesn't know or understand it. By chance he meets his polar opposite "The Kid" (Sam Rockwell) who's a free spirit and lives off-the-grid by no rules whatsoever. The Kid may be just what Al Fountain needs.

melissa-foxworthy2 John Turturro is a high-strung, anal-retentive electrical engineer who takes a detour on a business trip to find an old childhood lake and stumbles across a free-spirited guy (Sam Rockwell) who lives out in the boonies in half a house and sells ceramic lawn ornaments he steals from other people's lawns.This low-key exercise in quirk from writer-director Tom DeCillo (Living in Oblivion) boils down to "Seize the day," "Stop and smell the flowers," insert life-affirming platitude here. It's memorable chiefly for Turturro and especially Rockwell in his first real front-and-center role; DiCillo regulars Catherine Keener (second-billed in what amounts to a four-scene cameo) atypically cast as a shy fantasist and Dermot Mulroney as a burn-scarred mechanic liven up this underpopulated movie. Essentially a buddy movie for the indie-film crowd, but if you enjoy Turturro and Rockwell (I do) there are worse ways to spend 107 minutes.

Leonard Kniffel I decided to write a review of this film while watching it, just to make sure the boring 112 minutes it takes to get through it are not a complete waste of time. This is sophomoric male fantasy, embarrassing in its stupidity. "Jesus Christ kid, that's an $1800 window," says Al as his new-found friend takes him on a shooting rampage. The entire film is one absurd and phony protestation after another from Al, followed by his gleeful compliance with every idiotic stunt of theft or vandalism the fool in the woods dreams up. Mid-life crisis? Mental breakdown? I don't know and the movie never prompts me to care. At this point in the film, people are seeing Jesus in a hamburger placard. Amusing? Now the two fools are getting beat up. I give up.

yddsp@aol.com Like a fairytale without the magic, or perhaps the magic without the actual presence of the fays, is of little or no consequence. The story is about the quest in search of one's true inner self, like an odyssey or some mystical adventure through the psyche, having the most unlikely of guides there to lead you. A middle-aged professional engineer, who seems to have lost sight of the most fundamental things in life, is exposed to a life changing, potentially enlightening experience. Whether or not he possesses the insight to recognize the true meaning of life in its most basic of elements, remains there the lesson of a wisdom inherent in the constant struggle between reality and possibility.Sometimes we become so wrapped up in the mundane, we lose ourselves and the only way to regain one's senses is to then distance ourself from the reality of things. Al Fountain is such a fellow, he meets the "Kid", a free-spirited, highly irresponsible dreamer who lives life in the moment with no apparent regard or respect for the consequences. Such a philosophy, or lack thereof, could drive a seemingly "normal" person to the brink of either insanity or epiphany, yet there appears to be a very fine line between the two. A thoroughly enjoyable Indie film.