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Frances H Why do the critics always love the films that are violent, depressing as hell, and involve characters such as drug dealers and gangsters. But when a film involves situations that touch your heart and show human beings coping with situations that are horrible with dignity and compassion, they label it as too emotional and sentimental! Well, real people liked this movie and I did, too. Melodrama is the way real people die of cancer--I know, because I watched my father sister die of it and it was horrible. The death here is what we would like death to be, but seldom is. However, do we go to the movies to see real life? Maybe critics do, but real people don't. The movies are makebelieve, that is why they are movies. The more they are like real life, the less we like them, because we go to the movies to escape from real life. So when a movie plot has two deaths in it and the grieving survivors find each other and comfort each other, that's what we want in the face of tragedy--for something good to come out of it, for the dying person to find some happiness before death and die peacefully. Sure, that's not the way it happens, but it is the way we wish it did. And this subtlety, superbly acted film does that. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 08/07/17 Full Review Audience Member A bit depressing and confusing not too bad though Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member To lose one mother may be regarded as a misfortune Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member From the very start of the movie you know exactly where it's going to end up and the journey up to that point isn't really that interesting. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member One star for the acting. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Audience Member If not for the powerful performances from Bacon and Harden I don't think I would have made it through this. An okay movie with an interesting premise that came together pretty believably considering. Lagged a bit in the middle with the ending leaving it up to you to decide what happened next. 06.13 "Poignant tale of a train engineer who has to deal with a professional tragedy while trying to care for his cancer-stricken wife, faltering marriage and a new and unexpected member of the family." Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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