Raul Faust
A teenagers dies in a car accident and his family is left helplessly. From that perspective, it's evident the pain that parents and relatives go through, so that's what "The Greateast" focuses in. The actors involved in this project are professional, with highlights to Susan Sarandon and Pierce Brosnan, who play the desperate parents that suffer, each one, in its own way. The mother is the one who cries, gets grumpy and tries to relieve her pain by insulting others; the dad, on the other hand, prefers quieting down and trying to fill his mind with other stuff. There is a beautiful scene in the beach, where both adults go for a swim, even if it lasts only a few seconds. It's good to see the development that Sarandon's character has in this picture, thanks to a well written plot. The film as a whole just isn't better because sometimes it feels too strong; I mean, there is no comedy or any light scene to make it at least charming. This is pure drama! So, if that's what you're looking for, "The Greateast" is gonna be a good choice.
graestella
Confusingly, Muhammad Ali is nowhere to be seen in this film. Or if he was in there I'd fallen asleep before he appeared.A waste of a good cast. All of them tried their best, with the exception of Susan Sarandon who just played her standard 'Miserable Mother 1' role as seen in several other films.The plot was implausible to say the least. I would love to have been a fly on the wall during the script writing sessions. Didn't anyone realise this was pants? "Wait a minute...you can't do that !" We have a car crash. The boy dies. The parents (and the cops, fire service,medics and coroner ) fail to notice that a girl was in the car with him. How ? Did she walk off, or something ? Or get kidnapped by aliens ?Were none of her belongings, purse, blood etc. found in the wreak ? Then the loopy mother spends all her time trying to interview the driver of the OTHER CAR, not the other person IN THE CAR, who has magically vanished. Somehow the other driver managed to have a chat with her son while succumbing to a cerebral bleed ( like you do ) and falling into an inconvenient coma.Then it gets worse. The girlfriend turns up at the funeral, wearing a huge and obvious arm cast. No one asks who the hell she is. Then later she turns up at their house saying she is carrying the son's unborn child. Dad is completely shocked. Not even having noticed her at the funeral, never mind in the hospital where she must have been taken after the crash.This preposterous plot could only have worked if the car crash had taken place on a frontier between two warring countries. Then the two occupants of the car MIGHT have plausibly ended up in separate hospitals. But this seemed to be set in the USA.Apart from Cary Mulligan acting sexually aroused at the beginning, something very few US actresses would dare do, this film had no merits at all. If you blinked or came in late you would have missed this bit.
H0 PE
I kind of cried a lot of times during the movie... (* embarrassed*) Really touched me how the small moments and the acting came through. The huge emotional hardships... The hurting... The missing moments that was missing by mistakes of someone... The problems we arise ourselves with our human small-mindedness... This movie makes you realize how f*ed up we are, and still, we can do so much more... and when we LOVE! ... if we LOVE and we give a chance to each other within our really screwed up world, we can fix everything, and give hope to each other for a better future and for each other to make things right...Every little seconds passed in this movie, was visible on their (actor's) face that counts a lot for me in this move.Will watch it again thats for sure!
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.
AD
