Gong5 — 15 years ago(July 25, 2010 04:47 PM)

Suspenseful, warm, heartfelt with really good performances, de Niro, is good, Frances is excellent as per usual, Eliza dushkou, the guy playing the junkie son is very good too, and all the supporting cast.
To see this negative comments here verifies the fact that people, especially kids, have very bad taste, they are emotionally shallow, they like predictability and despise nuances, they cant handle low key unless its some indie pretentious drivel, they either get overly impressed with sensationalist pseudo shallow garbage, or shallow trite, any film with little pretence but woe emotional nuance flies over them. Let alone something really intelligent, which of course is one film in very couple of thousand or so, so that doesn't happen very often.
Same goes for critics.
Anyway that's the way it is, for those in the minority who do have taste, I am sure they are going to enjoy this unpretentious, sad and warm film.