11-year old narrator Henry and his damaged mother Adele find themselves unwilling hosts to escaped murderer Frank.
The trailer and advertising stress the dramatic elements of this movie: it is actually a straightforward romance. The good points are that it features a good, if showy, performance from Kate Winslet (which strays occasionally into overstatement) and solid work from Josh Brolin as Frank and Gattlin Griffith as Henry. It looks attractive, and the characters are broadly likable.
It was a little too leisurely for me. I found it all fairly improbable, especially the last 5 or 10 minutes or so (Henry becomes a successful pastry baker because an escaped convict once baked a fruit pie for him? Really?). I would have liked to have seen a little more emotional variation written into Henry's character, and Clark Gregg failed to take the opportunity to have a big moment, although that was perhaps in the writing rather than the performing.
This was an overwhelmingly average movie.
The trailer and advertising stress the dramatic elements of this movie: it is actually a straightforward romance. The good points are that it features a good, if showy, performance from Kate Winslet (which strays occasionally into overstatement) and solid work from Josh Brolin as Frank and Gattlin Griffith as Henry. It looks attractive, and the characters are broadly likable.
It was a little too leisurely for me. I found it all fairly improbable, especially the last 5 or 10 minutes or so (Henry becomes a successful pastry baker because an escaped convict once baked a fruit pie for him? Really?). I would have liked to have seen a little more emotional variation written into Henry's character, and Clark Gregg failed to take the opportunity to have a big moment, although that was perhaps in the writing rather than the performing.
This was an overwhelmingly average movie.