Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

estronbase This is not the sort of film I like. I started watching it, realised my mistake but kept watching to the end.There was way too much misery in this film for me. Being brought to tears is not my idea of entertainment. I wasn't, but that did seem to be the aim of this film. There were happy moments, of course, but these were outweighed by misery and anger.

bob-790-196018 This tear-jerker was diverting enough, though it follows the usual trajectory of movies about coping with grief. 1) Death of a loved one; 2)survivors respond in different ways, causing bitter conflict; 3) something warm and fuzzy intervenes (in this case, the dead son's girlfriend gives birth to his child); 4) dramatic realizations, with many tears spent, resolve the conflict, leaving everyone sadder but wiser.So alright, I was entertained anyway. Most appealing were the youngsters, played by Carey Mulligan, Johnny Simmons, and Miles Robbins. Pierce Brosnan was interesting until the obligatory scene where he breaks down in his wife's arms, one of the more grotesque crying jags on film.Susan Sarandon had a thankless part as the mother who refuses to let everyone else mourn in peace.The brief appearance of Michael Shannon three-quarters of the way into the movie was like finding a gold coin on a vacant lot. He is just a wonderful actor.

Muzaffer Bayraktar I cried more than once during this movie. I recalled the ones I cared. It doesn't have to be a person what you lost. Something you cared about. I'm a 32 year old guy looking tough with enough physical and mental proof. I thought that I'm really messed up while watching the movie and crying at the very same time. I don't know how I would have felt if I never had lost anything big in my life. But I did and this movie gave me a great relief like someone I don't know understood what I've been through and said "Hey, I have the same thing. I got you. Everything will be alright". It might give you the same relief it gave me. I can't talk in the name of you. But you should give this movie a chance. Maybe it will say something for you no one ever did before.

edwagreen There is just entirely too much going on in this picture.Despite the fact that Pierce Brosnan is hopelessly miscast as the husband to a very old looking Susan Sarandon, the film goes on and on and could conceivably rival "Peyton Place."When their son is killed in an auto accident and his girlfriend injured, the parents soon learn she is pregnant. Mother Sarandon is bitchy and refuses to accept the girl. The younger brother meets a girl at grief counseling and they like each other until he finds out something about her. Exhausted, Brosnan appears to have a coronary, but doesn't, while his son lights up a joint in another room.The guy involved in the fatal accident comes out of a coma and tells Sarandon that her son's last words were that he loved the girlfriend. When Sarandon hears these words, suddenly she looks better and everyone is happy. Come on. We know that people deal with grief differently but this is a little too much to take.