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.

dnjsthd The house of the protagonist Frank(Robert De Niro) who died with his wife a while ago seems comfortable, but it feels lonesome.Scraping the outer grass or organizing the inside of the house does not give the person a special vitality. Before my wife leaves this world, the kids already have a lot of walls and leave him You are cold inside the house so he will wait for the day the children will visit and wait.In order to entertain a good meal for children, he purchases good wines with large marts and also buys good quality meat and buys good performance barbecue grills.But my son and daughters who decided to return home on the weekend of consecutive holidays cancel cancellation of a sudden visit, and I will be home to all of your child's house directly.After that, the contents are composed by the talk which we stay at each child's house. It feels a bit like an omnibus style composition.Father who sees and feels all the difficult journey of the child and leaves the love of sadness and sympathy and comes home by lung disease.Frank who lost his medicine for pulmonary disease while complaining about the vague while traveling is supposed to return to the house where the flakes are about to fall. This time I will take an airplane for the first time in my life. However, myocardial infarction occurs during flight and it is dispatched to the hospital.Ironically, all the family gathers in Frank's bed.I believed in the death of my son, from before that, the cruelty that the truth that he knew is afraid, and a gentle lie the children gifts gifts. Frank is confused to the flood of the truth that has come out suddenly, the movie carries it with a warm gaze as well.People who played the role of father perform actingly like the actress Robert DeNiro, who enters near the child on behalf of his wife, but who is already a distant father like a modern father who had already been too far away.A unique star actor representing Hollywood such as Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell and Drew Barrymore appeared in this impressive drama, making the movie even more brilliant.Especially emotional performance that emerges from years of experience of Robert De Niro and comfortable performance without the power of young actors is enough for the audience to feel the excitement through resection..

Gomfa1583 I read through a couple of reviews before writing this and it surprised me how so many thought the performances were terrible or the focus on the young children were "so annoying." Great movies are only made great by those who understand them. How many great classic novels are pushed aside today because they sound boring or too difficult to read? Reading requires knowing how to read a book in order to understand what the author is saying, that's why English is required in school. Film "reading" is not required learning but should be since everyone watches movies.If you don't understand what you are watching, then how you can understand something wonderful happening in front of you? This film reflects the lives of so many who reach that point in their life. This is why for many dads, the song "Cat's in the Cradle" really hits home for them and their sons. They want to know that a part of them is with their children now and will live on. The subtly and simplicity of this film is what made it so wonderful to watch. A father visiting his children may not seem like much but when you're life is near the end, that's the best thing you can do with your time. You really have to understand how people live their lives in order to see all the little details in order to truly see what made this film so great. There are a few shots of him alone at home just living that show how lonely and quiet his life has become. It's also meant to reflect isolation, and the need for that human connection again. In old age routine becomes your friend and your enemy all at the same time. It gives you a reason to get up in the morning, thankful for another day and gets you doing stuff around the house.You find a theme of the importance of communication throughout the film. All he wanted was to find out what he missed all those years, but under that need, he just wanted to fill the shoes of being a good parent. This is something that many people can relate to, there are some who only talk to their mothers and some who only talk to their fathers over the phone. The one parent may tell the other but how often do they really listen. It's that little act of caring that does have an impact on the children. Parenting is not easy and everything you tell your kids does affect them later on, sometimes for good or bad. This movie shows those effects and how, if given the chance to talk to your young kids again, you would do things differently.This movie has been compared to About Schmidt and that this is De Niro's version of that. If it is or isn't, it really doesn't matter. Movies are meant to pull us into a world and get us to think. If this is another movie that is meant to appreciate your family and the time you have with them, then it's important to listen to the message. You only get so many Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners with your kids; you don't get all of them. You only get to hug them so many times before they have to start doing that for their kids, and you know it's never enough. Everybody's Fine is about a man who wanted to see how his family was doing and found out, and it took some heart ache to do it, but that's because he cared enough to get out of his routine to do it.If you plan on watching this for the first time, bring some tissues, don't let anything interrupt you, and if your kids are watching it with you, keep them near you, you'll know why near the end. If your kids are adults now, then maybe this will start an open conversation with everyone.Film watching tip: don't bring anything into the movie (emotionally I mean), just sit, listen, don't talk, and look for the details. You will see why this movie is such an amazing, yet simple, film to watch.

sddavis63 This is a sad movie. It's not a tear-jerker in the classic sense of the word, but it has an atmosphere of sadness throughout. It's a wonderful performance by Robert Deniro, who catches and portrays this atmosphere of sadness perfectly. His performance isn't overpowering, because that's not the nature of his character. It's just incredibly solid, and perfect for the role of Frank Goode. Frank is a recent widower who, without his wife, is just a little bit lost. He won't admit it. He tells people he's fine, but he's really not. We know he's sick with a lung problem, and we know he's alone. He has four kids that he loves, but they're scattered throughout the country and it was his wife who really kept in touch with them, and based on what she told him, they're all doing fine. As the movie opens, Frank is planning for a family re-union. All the kids are coming to visit and they'll be gathered as a family around the dinner table ("just like at Christmas") for the first time since his wife's funeral. Then one by one they all drop out, and Frank decides that if they won't come to him, he'll go to them, so he sets out on a cross- country trip to drop in on each one.We know something's wrong with Frank's eldest son. It's revealed really early on that he was arrested in Mexico. We don't know anymore, though, and all the kids want to keep this from their dad. In the meantime, as Frank makes his visits, we discover that even with the other three, not everything is as fine as Frank's wife had led him to believe. Frank knows everything isn't fine. He senses that something's wrong; that things aren't quite the way his wife told him with any of them. And we slowly unravel the mystery.Kirk Jones directed a slow-moving, gentle but very good movie. The supporting cast (especially Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell as the three kids Frank does connect with) all do their jobs very well. One thing that helps move this along, and prevents it from just being consumed by the sadness, is some low-key humour scattered throughout. Things like Frank asking the totally clueless supermarket clerk for help buying wine ("well, we have some good English wine from France, and some really good Italian wine from all over Europe"), or Frank playing golf with his grandson, or Frank thinking the trucker who gave him a lift to Reno was coming on to him. (It was a woman trucker!) They all brought a smile to my face and helped with the pacing of the movie. Without some humour, this might have been a bit too heavy.The sad atmosphere really lasts almost until the very end, only the last scenes really giving you a feeling that, finally, maybe everything will be fine. It's a fine movie, highlighted by Deniro's performance. (7/10)