Everybody's Fine

2009 "Frank's travelling light but carrying excess baggage."
7.1| 1h39m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 04 December 2009 Released
Producted By: Miramax
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.everybodysfinemovie.com/
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Eight months after the death of his wife, Frank Goode looks forward to a reunion with his four adult children. When all of them cancel their visits at the last minute, Frank, against the advice of his doctor, sets out on a road trip to reconnect with his offspring. As he visits each one in turn, Frank finds that his children's lives are not quite as picture-perfect as they've made them out to be.

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SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.
Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Ethan Where do I even start? The film starts off with a promising dramatic premise of Robert De Niro portraying a recently widowed husband who tries to contact his children. And then it goes downhill from there.Who wrote this trashfire of a script? The dialogue is incredibly cliche and weak, and tries to establish emotional relevance and connection with quotes about urinating on walls. The film is supposed to be about De Niro reconnecting with his children, but really it's about him reconnecting with his one son who decided to pursue art and his other children (who are also lacking in achievement, to his disappointment) hiding the fact that he was arrested and died of an overdose. How are we supposed to connect to this otherwise heartbreaking event when the son was never shown on screen, and the only flashback sequence we get is of De Niro encouraging his son to pursue art in a god-awful line about urinating on walls? When the film tries to bring it back up towards the end, as if we're expected to cry for it, it's laughable. Everybody's NOT fine because everybody's not finely written in this trashfire of a film that lacks any emotional connection with its characters and fails to establish and develop the characters that matter because it simply can't handle decent and relatable dialogue.
kai ringler Robert Deniro plays a widower who has just retired from a factory job that last 30 years.. now it's time for the annual family reunion,, except for the fact all four of his kids call and cancel on him, so taking this in stride, and against his dr's orders he sets out on a cross country trip to see what's up with all of his estranged kids. Is there life going the way he thinks it is.. or how they tell him,, well he will soon find out the answers one way or another and to his chagrin probably won't like the answers he gets.. He travels to Denver, NYC, Chicago, and finally Las Vegas, and along the way there are some funny monents,, some heartwarming ones,, and some gut wrenching sad ones, as he finally finds out what's going on with his family, and finds out why none of them wanted to come visit him in the first place..,, very good movie,, a little sad,, but very touching.
tavm Because my sister recommended this last year, I finally ordered this from Netflix and just watched it with my mom. It stars Robert De Niro as a recently widowed father who, having been told by three of his four grown children that they can't come home for the holidays, decides to visit them unexpectedly at where they all live. The three he visits are played by Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, and Drew Barrymore. The fourth is mostly referred to until near the end. I'll stop there and just say this was a nice change of pace for De Niro, usually known to me for his violent movies he made with Martin Scorsese, as he mostly gives a restrained performance here and pretty well, too. The others are also good in what their roles require of them. There are also some dream sequences of the offspring as children that also provided some interesting insights of what De Niro's character thinks and knows they're not telling him that I also liked. Oh, and Paul McCartney's song during the end credits was also touching. So on that note, Everybody's Fine gets a recommendation from me.
SMALLWHEELS101 I'm not saying the acting was bad, just hear me out. First of all , don't pick this as a date movie, I made that mistake and me and my bf were looking at each other crying ridiculously and screaming "why!" this film kinda reminds me of the movie Crossroads just with way better acting and cast and no brittney spears!. Its just one tragedy after another and just too painful to watch. The only character I was really feeling sorry for was Robert De Nero. He was the one that had to really suffer. Having four kids that seem to not care about him to tell him the truth about anything, now that's depressing. And the secrets they are keeping aren't really that bad, they just build up drama, and everything really bad that happens, happens to him. Now the big finale when one of his kids die you really don't feel remorse for that because you never meet him, but just feel sorry for the dad.I just can't sit through it again. I'm not quite sure why so many people enjoyed it. It was OK just not heartwarming like some depressing films are. Maybe someone out there will agree with me