Evening
Going with a compromise movie that all 3 of us could live with, Mondo, Ms. Kitty and I chose Evening as the weekend feature. By the time we had bought our tickets we had convinced ourselves that we were about to see the worst melodramtic movie of the summer. Luckily our expectations had been driven so low that Evening was better than we expected. Okay, not horrible, but it could have been better.
Most men will want to sit this one out. Evening is classic chick flick for the 40+ female crowd. The movie focuses on a dying woman's regrets about choices that she made and didn't make surrounding a love and long ago time from her past. There are around 4 storylines going on in this movie, Ann, the central dying woman and her memories, Ann's relationship with her daughters, the daughters relationship with each other, their relationship with their lives, and more. At times, I found it hard to keep who's who (and why) straight.
3 of us saw the movie together and we came away with 3 takes. I think we all agreed it was too slow paced and too long. Some of the plot points were boring and needless. Other elements of the movie were surprisingly good due to the actresses involved.
Glenn Close, Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep - all good. You could watch evening just for them.
Claire Danes - good. Maybe not her best movie but she was believable as young Ann.
Natasha Richardson, Toni Collette - both good.
Mondo & Ms. Kitty liked Patrick Harris and everyone's fantasy love, Harris. I found Harris boring but I also found him boring as Raoul in the movie version of Phantom of the Opera.
The casting agent did an awesome job. Natasha Richardson is Vanessa Redgraves daughter in real life. Meryl Streep's daughter played the younger version of her character in flashback sequences. There was a real effort to cast older/younger actresses that had similar looks and characteristics together.
The movie bring a couple of tears to my eyes but it wasn't overly melodramtic or sappy. If Evening is something that you've considered as a movie option, go with it. If it's something that you didn't think you wanted to see, then you're probably right and skip it.
Most men will want to sit this one out. Evening is classic chick flick for the 40+ female crowd. The movie focuses on a dying woman's regrets about choices that she made and didn't make surrounding a love and long ago time from her past. There are around 4 storylines going on in this movie, Ann, the central dying woman and her memories, Ann's relationship with her daughters, the daughters relationship with each other, their relationship with their lives, and more. At times, I found it hard to keep who's who (and why) straight.
3 of us saw the movie together and we came away with 3 takes. I think we all agreed it was too slow paced and too long. Some of the plot points were boring and needless. Other elements of the movie were surprisingly good due to the actresses involved.
Glenn Close, Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep - all good. You could watch evening just for them.
Claire Danes - good. Maybe not her best movie but she was believable as young Ann.
Natasha Richardson, Toni Collette - both good.
Mondo & Ms. Kitty liked Patrick Harris and everyone's fantasy love, Harris. I found Harris boring but I also found him boring as Raoul in the movie version of Phantom of the Opera.
The casting agent did an awesome job. Natasha Richardson is Vanessa Redgraves daughter in real life. Meryl Streep's daughter played the younger version of her character in flashback sequences. There was a real effort to cast older/younger actresses that had similar looks and characteristics together.
The movie bring a couple of tears to my eyes but it wasn't overly melodramtic or sappy. If Evening is something that you've considered as a movie option, go with it. If it's something that you didn't think you wanted to see, then you're probably right and skip it.
And don't forget--the antidote for having just watched an extreme chick-flick is to spend two hours watching mindless entertainment in the form of "Robot Chicken." Hey, and where's your review of the new Carlsbad Irish pub? Guinness must not go unmentioned...
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