Showing posts with label Jean Smart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jean Smart. Show all posts

Thursday, 2 November 2017

Hope Springs (2012)

 
 
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
 
The stars perform fine as a couple in a midlife crisis, but the message is that relationships are little business enterprises which only are 'successful' with constant effort and efficiency.
 
Maltin**1/2: "Reasonably realistic, empathetic comedy-drama...features (yet another) fine performance by Streep, but it's almost impossible to care about Jones' sullen, quarrelsome character. We have to take it on faith that she saw something wonderful in him all those years ago." 


Tuesday, 24 May 2016

Hero Wanted (2008)



After he awakens in a hospital, a man tracks down and murders the man that left him and a bank teller for dead during a robbery, only to end up having the slain thief's associates come after him in retaliation.

Great cast and good production guarantee for some thriller quality, but the implausible plot and the 'hero's ' psychological conflict are quite dubious.