MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Kirpianuscus a great film. almost perfect. because it is just honest picture of a family in search of small things who could define it. because it is the simple portrait of a father and the realistic image of a teenager and the levels to build a house. a parable. one of ordinary crisis. and a wise solution. short, it is touching, bitter and lovely. dramatic and optimistic. a fight against the past. a noble work to conquer the future. and a secret who becomes the basis, the brick and the window, the door and the roof. the great surprise is Hayden Christensen. in fact the revelation because the transformation of Steve, so powerful, so subtle, represents more than grow up. Kevin Klein has the rare gift to present his role as a piece of clay who becomes pottery in the careful, precise work of a great artist. a film who must see. because it has the virtue to become a precious experience.

NoFleshShallBeSpared I was hoping for so much more. There was the blueprint for a unique story that gets dissolved in so much schmaltz and allegory. I get that things are going to be left unfinished, but it seems this story wasn't finished and had to utilize cinematography and last-minute story-writing to finish what I would consider to be a lofty, yet noble, project of a motion picture.What I got was a laissez-faire attitude towards the commodification of teenage sexuality, family structure and all together communion of the soul. There are about 6 mini-stories at play, loosely connected to the main one, that warrant so much attention, but ultimately dissolve in hack endings and illusion to contentment. I can argue the vapidity of dipping in to these themes as a soft touch of narrative, but I can't argue for taking subject matter that is unique for John Q. Public, and ultimately giving it the brush off. Kevin Kline, Hayden Christiansen and Kristen Scott-Thomas carry the weight of this awkwardly shaped, yet airily light movie.Powerful performances still didn't distract me from the fact that Sam is painted in the most dismal light possible, and yet father-son bonding is supposed to be an all-healing experience for him! A great actor (and here we do see a young actor in GREAT form) still can't sell a measly product, especially one that doesn't ultimately give him a resolution rooted in reality. You don't take a paint-huffing, trick-turning, auto-erotic asphyxiating teenage boy and turn him into a strapping blue-collar vision of adjustment without some SERIOUS character changes.Even George's character could've been used to more effect, and he's the main story, the hero if you will. I see less resolution for Sam in George's parts, than I see a complexity in George's character that ultimately unwinds (to great effect, I'll admit) towards death. We see a man of great intimacy, yet commitment-phobic. Someone learning compassion bereft of social expectation. Ultimately all I see is potential dialogue that could benefit both characters, but prefers to lean on one.Then we're left with all the unanswered questions that lead me to wonder what's in the water this characters are drinking. The kind of isolation within individualism that gives this movie it's initium, again somehow becomes magicallydissipated into community. The magic of a house is wondrous, to be sure, but I can't help but feel the writer's wanted to stay away from the gritty soul-searching that this film hints at, and fails to deliver.

operdoc A totally predictable movie with a whole lot of fake emotion. Worth watching if you are a big fan of Kevin Kline or Kristan Scott Thomas. Movie starts out poorly with an unbelievable suicide attempt, and gets worse from there. The tone of the movie is all wrong, the music making it more so.I wish Kevin Kline could get better parts. His talent dwarfs this slick piece of Hollywood hokum. Same goes for Kristan Scott Thomas, although she seems to find good roles in European films.Certainly, the movie has some humor that rises above most Hollywood fare, but it can't save the movie from its phony and contrived emotional content.Here's hoping that Kevin Kline and Thomas get roles worthy of their talent.

Armand just beautiful. for performance. for profound - game of reflections -story. and for the art to discover root of basic things. tale of a family. crisis, frustrations, lost of patience. and a house. as axis, silhouette, mirror. river of tensions. search of sense. a war out of limits. or sense. in fact, a secret battle. and the fragile, magnificent victory. victory of each character. against it. result - touching-subtle picture of every day. a lesson. and more. because this film is only echo of ordinaries situations. nothing more. its real virtue - to be an universal image. not inspiration for solutions. not sad. just meditation about root. root of small events. and build of a house into the heart of others soul.