This is a terribly depressing movie
Not because of its earthiness and refusal to sugar coat
But because the lead Male character is written so poorly that it's actually hard to stomach the scenes in which he is central
A tired, old, 'I'm afraid of commitment but need to grow up. I want to learn how to love,' narrative that made me want to sit my daughter in front of the screen and say 'NEVER allow a grown man spouting this ugly rhetoric into your life,'
it was stale and painful to endure and yet I wanted to see if the story might lift somehow beyond the anodyne. It didn't
What do we learn?
The mother is fine
Being a single mother is fine
The kids are fine
There is no room for scope with such a cliche of a Male character (manchild) as a lead
Nothing to learn from this movie
It's an insult to evolved men and to (single) mothers
Bad, bad bad movie taking us back in time instead of propelling us forward to conversations that actually matter
