randyruss72
The reviews here are splendid, articulate, fair and respectful. I simply wanted to add how, at the close of the film, clever the screenwriter broadened the flashbacks to the young Kagan and the young Sweeney. We know there's a shower encounter that causes Kagan to be outed as gay but we are made curious by how Sweeney is involved and how the film shows more and more details about Sweeney as if his own memory is allowing the truth to become conscious. I thought it especially heart- wrenching when we see the young Kagan and young Sweeney playing a duet at Kagan's grand piano in his elegant home. I had not heard of this film and was merely browsing YouTube. I chose it from its title without noting it was a full movie. I could not stop watching.
airdrieguy
Misleading description of movie as the crime is well known to those who committed it and everyone seems genuinely sorry so not sure what the point of the movie is. You only maim the ones you love? You will sleep with anyone and mess with anyone's emotions because it will drag out the movie? It will take an endless amount of time to drive from somewhere in upstate New York to Miami but only minutes to drive home? Disjointed vignettes of one man's search for absolution is how I would describe this movie. Too much happens for which there is no explanation and the explanations provided are in no way consistent with the whom the characters claim to be.
Anne Under
I just saw this movie and not knowing much about it, I didn't know what to expect. Whatever my expectations, the movie had surpassed them. The cast is brilliant, the dialog tight, the building of the story towards the climax careful, sensitive and moving.It's the story of a man, "Handsome" Harry (Jamie Sheridan) who didn't know his own life was a failure until he gets a call from an old navy friend (Steve Buscemi), forcing him to examine his life. It leads him on a road trip during which he seeks absolution - officially on his friend's behalf or maybe it's for himself - and has to come to grips with the decisions that he's made, the people that he's hurt and the crime he has committed. At the end of this journey, will he have the courage and strength to overcome the fear that drove him in the past?I suspect the people who gave the movie poor grades were expecting something else entirely, a suspense thriller, and that's why they were disappointed. While there is some suspense here, it is first and foremost a soul-searching, heart-wrenching drama. And I for one feel richer for having seen it. Much like the jazz music that makes the beautiful soundtrack, there is not one note in it that's out of tune.
ffejhawk
I am a big fan of Steve Buscemi so I expected a lot out of this film, boy was I wrong, like the other reviewer I agree this felt like watching an episode of Matlock, only an episode of Matlock would probably be more entertaining. Characters were very dry and without any depth or believable emotion, like they could care less about their lines or the movie as a whole and that transfers to the viewers interest in watching it. I am not going to drone on and on as some do and I have never reviewed another title but this film I felt has a very deceiving rating and I hope this review and the other gentlemen's that also gave us an honest opinion are helpful in curving others from wasting their time on this piece of garbage. I would also like to say I am not sure what magazine that other reviewer stole that over worded tripe to explain what they saw, but if they in fact sat there and wrote with such passion for this crap they obviously need some real entertainment to use as a marker.
AD
