St. Vincent

2014 "Love Thy Neighbor"
7.2| 1h42m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 24 October 2014 Released
Producted By: The Weinstein Company
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://stvincent-movie.com/
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A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.
UnowPriceless hyped garbage
Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
Brent Brent I feel as though this movie was an incredible waste of my time full of dull drama, unnecessarily sappy cheese and a topic that's been done before over and over ... A cranky curmudgeon is touched by the friendship of a child. Bill Murray inexplicably plays a New Yorker with a thick Boston accent. He has a gambling addiction, drinks too much and treats people in a generally dismissive and curmudgeonly way. Murray does a good job with the character but we've seen it so many times before ... It could basically have been an impression of Nicholson in As Good As It Gets.The writing is what really kills the film. Beyond the trite acts of bringing a child to a horse track or the bar, it's so sickly sweet in terms of incorporating every bit of adult/kid sappy shtick. The boy gets in a fight with some boys, which is witnessed by Murray, so Murray teaches him to fight (while hitting a heavy bag with a drink in his hand) Hokey. The kid gets picked on in a Dodge ball game and ends up punching the bully in the nose and knocking him out. Incredibly hokey. THEN the kid makes friends with the bully and discovers underneath is a nice, insecure friend. Hokey to the tenth power.Murray's wife has Altzeimers disease and doesn't recognize him so he dresses up as a Doctor in order to visit her at the fancy nursing home. Yet the evil nursing home is going to kick her out so he has to raise money to allow her to stay so he goes to the track and loses. And this is where things get horrible from a writing standpoint.Murray has a stroke at the very moment the bookies come to beat him up. Apparently he has a major stroke which paralyzes the left side of his body. But it's okay because in only a week or two's time he fully recovers. Not sure if Wes Anderson bothered to do any research on strokes but this is so far from the length of recovery time. I'm sure a year or more's recovery wouldn't work with the script but the whole thing is so dumb. Right down to the part where they pack the left side of Murray's mouth with cotton balls so it appears he cannot speak. Again, not at all what happens when someone has a stroke. Research?Finally, in the last 20 ish minutes of the film we inexplicably learn that in the couple weeks Murray was fully recovering from his major stroke, his healthy looking wife died. And Melissa McCarthy's ex was suing her for custody of the boy Murray was looking after. And hired a private investigator to take photos of Murray and the boy at the track, the bar, and the boy with Murray's Russian girlfriend or whatever she is ... Who is a hooker/stripper (of course).The end breaks all records for campy shtick as the boy goes to a Catholic school and they are required to pick a human Saint that they know. Of course the boy picks Murray who at the last minute decides to skip the track and walk into the auditorium JUST as the boy is starting his presentation. Through an epic PowerPoint presentation (this is a 7 year old boy who somehow puts the presentation together using photos of Murray's life which are oddly of an actor playing a young Bill Murray, it seems) We learn that Murray was a hero in Vietnam who saved members of his platoon and actually was a decent human being until he turned into an old cranky person. Cut to a CU up Murray with tears in his eyes. Then his Russian girlfriend has her baby.So over the top, poorly written, everything works out in the end and it's predictable, campy and just not at all funny. I don't even know if I'd call this a drama. I'd call it a waste of time or a screen writing mess.
alexanderstephencraig Simply put, it was a great film. The acting was incredible. I personally think that anyone who can do comedy well, is fantastic in drama. Comedy is much harder to tap into and act out than drama, in my opinion. So being that two of the main cast are known as comedians, is a good sign. The film 360 degrees was great. It was more than expected and more real than I would have though. Melissa McCarthy did very well as did the rest of the cast. Bill Murry was different than any other film I've seen him in but he kept it very real and emotional. Naomi Watts, unsurprisingly did amazing. Is that such a surprise though? Her character was a loud, bold, straight-forward hooker who definitely was needed. Without her the film would have been so much different. As well as the acting in the film, the story was great and very well written. It has more context than I thought it would have and it went places I didn't predict which was all the more better. I would watch this film again 100 percent. The acting by itself holds up the film but it doesn't need to as it delivers on every other aspect. It was a very fun yet emotional film. Definitely give it a watch!
sbsieber Melissa McCarthy shows a real knack for dramatic acting; I like her better in this movie than most of her other comedic roles. Lots of movie clichés in St. Vincent, in fact the entire premise is a cliché, but it's fun, heartwarming, and entertaining. Bill Murray has perfected his lovable grouch persona and is revealed to be, a modern day saint despite his despicable characteristics. My biggest objection: he gets "Sainthood Points" for visiting his wife, who suffers from some form of dementia, (yet manages to still look flawlessly beautiful), once a week, while also "entertaining" a Russian hooker the rest of the time. Not sure how saintly this is; my father-in-law visits his wife several times a day while she's in long term care, and has been doing it for years. Perhaps we should award him a sainthood medal.
moonspinner55 The type of mid-budget star-vehicle that gets sold in production meetings with the caveat that it's "a feel-good movie." With Bill Murray acting like a lovable jerk (not a big stretch for Murray), "St. Vincent" also has the earmarks of a project groomed and designed to generate Oscar buzz--it has 'prestige' by way of its edgy but essentially warmhearted presentation. A grouchy Vietnam veteran in Brooklyn inadvertently becomes a babysitter for the little boy living next door after his parents split up and Mom has to work all day at the hospital. Fill-in-the-blanks screenplay by director Theodore Melfi has absolutely no surprises up its sleeve, and Murray is no longer the inimitable rascal you hate to love (he's present, but I question his sincerity). The picture isn't unique--it doesn't feel fresh, it doesn't tear you up--and Oscar did not come calling. I'm not even sure what Melfi was ultimately aiming for here (beyond setting up his happy ending), especially with the anticlimactic casting of Melissa McCarthy as the child's harried mother (she has little to do but react and scold). There's not a convincing scene in the entire 102 minutes, but some audiences may respond to its 'endearing' qualities, which is what the people behind "St. Vincent" had planned for all along. ** from ****