Margaret Singer (Susan Sarandon) is a mother of seven sons that is also divorcing her husband Patrick (Sam Shepard) and wants to move to the city for living on her own. Suddenly she hears on TV the news about a bombing at a Marine base in the Middle East where her son Percival is stationed there. All the other sons return home in waiting for positive news about Percival and also Patrick for rejoining his bond with Margaret. The movie then moves back and forth between scenes of the family together at home and flashbacks of Margaret helping her kids grow when they were little. They will all wait the good news, but will it arrive? See the movie.
The reason for seeing this obscure movie is simply for the good feelings it provides. Despite Margaret and her children are all anxious for the news about Percival, they still live a good life: they visit friends, they go out for daily routines and so on. Probably the moment I loved the most is when Izzy (Sean Astin) tried to understand the reason behind the dad's casual blindness and he even succedds in finding some sort of cure for it.
Despite this movie has very few reviews, I highly recommend it because, yes it is about a dysfunctional family, but it manages also to be a great feel good movie.
The reason for seeing this obscure movie is simply for the good feelings it provides. Despite Margaret and her children are all anxious for the news about Percival, they still live a good life: they visit friends, they go out for daily routines and so on. Probably the moment I loved the most is when Izzy (Sean Astin) tried to understand the reason behind the dad's casual blindness and he even succedds in finding some sort of cure for it.
Despite this movie has very few reviews, I highly recommend it because, yes it is about a dysfunctional family, but it manages also to be a great feel good movie.