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The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Often a very brooding film with characters who appear lifeless and just reciting their lines.Basically, it's the story of a writer who finds inspiration to continue his work after a visit from his daughter. Of course, she has a motive for visiting-collecting money if she can secure the love letters her dad wrote to her now deceased mother.The films just feels depressing and to me all the characters were stilted including Will Ferrell, who for a change acts in a dramatic role.dEd Harris is completely unrecognizable as the father. He looks like a flower child out of the 1960s with that long-white hair.Just like the winter, you will be glad when this wintry film passes.

Reese Holden (Zooey Deschanel) is a struggling NY actress with many personal problems. She's offered $100k by Lori Lansky to get her reclusive writer father (Ed Harris)'s love letters with her mother. Her mother had recently died but she didn't go to her funeral. She goes home to find her father living with his former student Shelly (Amelia Warner) and weird musician Corbit (Will Ferrell). Her father is withdrawn and she's haunted by her troubled childhood.Writer/director Adam Rapp is doing a somewhat mixed indie. Zooey Deschanel is losing her quirkiness for a real sad character. I wish she had more substantial conversations with Ed Harris but he ends up catatonic in most of the movie. Then there is Will Ferrell who seems intent to be quirky and it's ill-fitting. It's interesting to see Zooey take a slight turn and this indie has a few interesting moments.

This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen, despite touting a cast that I adore. Painfully aware of itself and desperate to fit the "indie" mold, this film is the pits. You know those girls in college that brood and "secretly" cut themselves but then go out in tank tops because they want you to know how deep they are? That's basically the same thing this movie is trying to do: prove that it's naturally deep when it's just a calculated genre film (sad that indie is now a genre instead of a means of producing something via independent financing). If you're that eager to waste your time I suggest taking a nap over watching this movie.

******THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS RIGHT FROM THE START******* If it wasn't for this one thing, I would have given this movie an 8 or so. It was a great movie that gave us an interesting character study of what it means to finally forgive your parents for being human, flaws and all. Some people have bigger challenges then others and this one probably falls somewhere in the middle. Our heroine, Reese, (played by Zooey Deschanal) is an angst ridden only child raised by angst ridden artistic parents. We are led to the conclusion that her parents were more concerned with their writing careers and each other than with her. From this she has become a lonely and scared young woman who cannot let herself feel. This is why she does things like slam her hand in dresser drawers so that she can make herself feel (and cry).First off, as kooky as her upbring must have been it wasn't that bad compared to people who suffer physical and sexual abuse and all of those other HORRORS that many people endure. I realize that not all people react the same way to difficult family dynamics and that Reese is young and hasn't yet gone through the phase where you realize your parents were flawed human beings who did the best that they could. Nonetheless, does that excuse her being a psychopathic animal killer? Aren't any of the other reviewers as appalled as I am that she would choose to drown her cat, while it is locked in a gym bag, instead of having the vet put it to sleep? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? She let this adorable kitty who she is supposed to care about suffer the terror it must have felt while the bag slowly filled up with cold water and drowned it? HELLO??? No vet in the world would not put the animal to sleep if the owner cannot afford treatment (the kitty had leukemia). I don't see how this behavior (behavior that is often a precursor to becoming a serial killer) can possibly be excused because poor abused Reese was ignored by two temperamental artistic parents. I know the point was she was doing things to try and 'feel something' but to do this to a helpless animal is beyond what I could grasp as reasonable behavior by a person who can possibly 'come back to life' or be 'saved'. A little understanding on her part and getting some of the love from her father that she craved growing up fixes the problem that makes a person kill an animal? I wished she had OD'd on crack and died at the end. Then I would have given the movie a higher rating.