![]() In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Weber ( 500 Days of Summer, The Fault in Our Stars, Where'd You Go Bernadette) The script was written by rom-com masters Scott NeustadterĪnd Michael H. Jamie is one of the few who doesn't disapprove! The rest of the cast includes Matthias Schoenaerts-who I ususally like but I'm a bit miffed he's playing Addie's disapproving son Gene, Judy Greer as Redford's daughter Holly, Bruce Dern as a disapproving neighbor and Ian Armitage as Addie's grandson, Jamie. ![]() Check out the teaser trailer below, it really is quite sweet. This is an excellent movie from Netflix that will be available for streaming later this month.The film version of Kent Haruf's last book comes to the screen on September 29th and I'm eager to see how Robert Redford and Jane Fonda translate Louis and Addie onscreen. Fonda and Redford would have made him proud. The novel was published posthumously, so Louis and Addie are his legacy. He wrote his book under a death sentence: he was 71, and he finished it just months before he died of lung cancer. Kent Haruf, who wrote the novel upon which this film is based, knew a little about that. They have responsibilities, baggage, obligations. Of course, if you’re looking for classic, cheesy romance, this isn’t it. Yes, it’s great to see mature faces getting meaty roles, but you’re also getting a masterclass in acting. To mark the occasion, Fonda said “It was fun to kiss him in my 20s and then to kiss him again in my almost-80s.” I have to say, it was fun for the audience, too. They’ve co-starred in movies before: The Chase (1966), Barefoot in the Park (1967), and The Electric Horseman (1979) this is their first in 38 years. Jane Fonda and Robert Redford both accepted Lifetime Achievement awards here at the Venice Film Festival, in a ceremony preceding the screening of their new film. Of course they’re not immune to aging but they’re also not done living, and that was fantastic to see on the big screen. So many feel demeaning, unworthy of their subjects, but I must admit, this new one from Netflix feels invigorating and authentic. I’m often critical about movies starring senior citizens. Couldn’t they come to some arrangement? After thinking on it, he agrees, so off he goes in his best blue plaid shirt, to have a platonic sleepover with a neighbour he’s lived alongside for decades but never really known. Both of their spouses are long dead and they’ve each been leading pretty solitary existences up until Addie gets up the courage to ring Louis’s doorbell and invites herself in for a chat and a little proposal. That’s how Louis (Robert Redford) and Addie (Jane Fonda) are feeling when we first meet them – lonely. ![]() I know a little about love and grief, and how they are not mutually exclusive. I, however, wish him nothing but the best, and I’d wish the same for Sean if he were ever in the same spot. He was very vocal in his grief following her death so it took people by surprise when he announced his engagement barely a year later. Actor-comedian Patton Oswalt lost his wife suddenly in April 2016. ![]()
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