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Audience Member Great Movie! Lots of Reflection, and makes you look at your life! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Good acting by Holly Hunter & Carrie Coon. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Spoilers: Sign me up for any movie with Holly Hunter, Carrie Coon and Glenn Headley in it. But this one is about a woman stuck, but surviving. Anyone who loses a son to suicide must be a basket case for a while, if not forever. But here it is seven years later, and 50-something, single, college office worker Holly in Georgia can't get over her 20-something's demise, wants to know details of his last few days, tracks down his buddies to find out, and along the way discovers that one of them got rich on her son's business plan for a Hot Dawg fast food chain where people make their own dogs. She and best friend, lesbian neighbor Carrie hit the road to New Orleans to talk to the Dawg millionaire, and Holly has no real idea what she will say to him about the business plan -- she'd rather be spontaneous than have a plan, and packs a pistol. Along the way she tries to talk to her son's dad, now 70 and mentally gone in a senior facility, and finds that Carrie, not always a lesbian, had more than friendship with her son. But Carrie makes it clear she went on the road tr[p to help depressed Holly get unstuck before it kills her. They stay a night with old friend Glenn, and dredge up some past events. The climactic scene with the Dawg guy has us wondering if she will use the gun to kill him or herself or what, as she says she wants no cash from him but just details of her son's final night with Dawg man. But it seems releasing her demons and finding details of the night her son died is cathartic and forms the start of closure and peace with that horrific loss in her life. Sons of Anarchy's Kim is her on-again-off-again boyfriend who could never really compete for her with her dead son, but she finally sees that keeping him at arm's length is folly, too. It gets classified emotional drama, and nets only sour grapes ratings. But the quality of the acting and truth of the dialogue elevate this to a hard slice of life piece focusing on the journey toward survival after immense loss and shock to the system, and how it can take years to regain a semblance of normal life after that grinding grief. I'd rate it much higher than the pack did. RIP Glenn. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member Hunter is great in this.. The entire movie was well done ! Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Lee P Holly Hunter is great, and so is most of the dialogue. But Carrie Coon steals the show. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/31/19 Full Review Adis M Not the best movie from 2017. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 10/12/18 Full Review Read all reviews

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