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I was tired of thrillers and suspense so I tried this movie on Netflix. It's lighthearted but sad. Not much happens, just a slice of life. I didn't hate it but I probably won't remember it. I give this 5 / 10.

I've read enough reviews stating things like 'no one to root for' and that the film is slow. I basically view both types of opinions on this film as coming from those that are the type of audiences that enjoy the endless Marvel/Star Wars drivel; where the action and pace is non-stop and unnatural and where cliche characters are everyone's favorite.

This film has solid natural pacing, and it is slow yet befitting the theme, so those that have an attention span and are in the right mood for such a film should give it a go. The film, as the synopsis says, is about a divorcee (Mendelsohn) that feels lost after the end of his marriage and abandoning his career - as most people would. Married to this sense of aimlessness is poor decisions which ultimately lead to a sort of redemption with those that ultimately matter. Mendelsohn is great as always and the supporting cast is solid. Avoids usual structure of films that many are unfortunately acclimated to that result in a firework worthy crescendo. A film about a man's life that is upside down in this regard isn't an edge of your seat film, complete with heroes and action scenes; some people really need to take the thirty seconds to read a synopsis and think (if possible) for another thirty seconds if that film is up their alley.

Bottom line: Solid movie, slower pace yet befitting of themes involved, and solid performances. Soundtrack is a dud. Those that did enjoy the movie and are readers should check out the book that preceded it.

Decent, honest movie. No grandeur, over the top USA stuff, a little nice drama about zombie hood called 'normality', and how hard it is to get out...

I enjoyed this movie. It wasn't anything fancy, it just showed a short look into a middle aged man's life. I found it had the feel of a series and I think it could have been a few episodes maybe. I liked the leads, although the son was a little flat.

I think it explored guilt and the lost loneliness that can befall people when they've been in a marriage, but find themselves lost.

Perhaps as a middle-aged man, I can relate to the main character a bit better than some other reviewers. I liked the setting of the movie. It did not show the happily ever after situation where most movies end. Instead, we see the results of a failed marriage. A lonely, broken man who wonders where it all went wrong. We did not need flashbacks of the past that much, just the situation which the main character was. It was also apparent that he had failed as a father as well and tried to become one a tad bit late.

In fact, the main character tries so hard to pick up the pieces of his lost life and ends up with some decisions that might sound unrealistic to some others, but if you know someone who has suddenly changed their life in middle-age, it sounds about right.

Someone had criticized the movie because it was about rich people problems. True enough, the setting was Hollywoodish. For example: I had a laugh when a specific apartment was described as "small". Despite that, I felt this was about people, not about wealth. What I was hoping was a bit stronger ending, somehow the "climax" of the story was a bit weak emotion-wise.

All in all, a movie worth watching for. And if you're a bit older than the average superhero movie fan, you might actually enjoy this quite a bit.

People giving this film a review of 1-5 are trolls. Nothing good going on in their lives. This movie is real with real life situations. Slow? Sure....but it's honest. IMbD has lost loads of integrity with these terrible reviews.

This film is absolutely a film for people who know divorced couplea, are themswlves divorced or have divorced parents. Its deep and shows the inner shortcomings and gifts of the caracters.

This film is about a man who navigates his newly divorced life.

From the poster, you can't tell how depressing the story is. It is engaging and makes you feel for the protagonist. The things that happen to him can happen to anyone, so it is a film that connects with viewers.

This is a rather ordinary yet familiar story of a dysfunctional family, or rather families. All the characters are flawed in one way or another. None are especially likeable nor attract much sympathy. The movie is is from the book of the same name, and follows a narrative that seems prominent in US literature (The first world travails of wealthy Americans in suburbia). There is no deep plot, nor some thrilling reveal - it's pretty much ordinary life. Nonetheless, it's a compelling watch, probably because we recognise ourselves in some of the characters. The cast make a good fist of their roles, and all characters seem real-life and believable.

This is not a movie for everyone. The characters are flawed and that's what makes them real. We do certain things in life without any reason. And that's what happens in this movie and that's what people are criticising but it is also that thing that made me like this movie. Not all characters are free of fault and the ones who look like the victims are equally to be blamed for everything that happened in the movie. I haven't read the novel but the movie is making me want to pick it up. Anders(played by the brilliant Ben Mendelsohn) has taken an early retirement but decorating his house and sleeping with strangers is not bringing him the happiness he expected to find after cutting ties with his old life. Even if you can't relate to his story, you'll be able to relate to him. I know Netflix has been failing in the action and romantic movie genres but in my opinion, they're not doing so bad in drama movies.

Very sweet but quite forgettable movie that does its entertainment job very well and also manages to excite but in the end it doesn't leave much even if it never gets bored.

I tried to find some deeper meaning or plot in the story and I couldn't. It felt unfinished, but dragged on at the same time. Typically I like movies that are blunt and real but this movie took that concept to an extreme. Even the most dramatic scene was short and not milked enough. Although, I gave it 5 stars because I liked watching the relationship between the two mothers. I also thought It was nice to finally watch a movie were I wasn't compelled to root for or like any of the characters, I just watched from an outsider's perspective.

This movie had the potential to be really good. Good cast, well acted and directed, sincere and realistic portrait of real life. It's the writing that ultimately fails it. It wants to go somewhere. The audience thinks it's going somewhere. But after 90 minutes you begin to fear it's not going anywhere. And sadly it doesn't. It completely loses any purpose or direction. Very odd, and ultimately disappointing if you're following along and engaged with the characters. Because it's so damn good in terms of the meaning and purpose that it purports in the first hour. It's as if the writer either got tired of it and bailed, or forgot about it and someone else picked it up - the director, who's hit or miss so far in her catalog - sometimes stellar and sometimes not so much - ended up writing the screenplay but just didn't know what it was about, nor where to go with it; even though WE the audience could see very clearly where it could go if it were going to be a great or even good film. It just meanders to a slow dead stop and a sadly far too typical and played out Hollywood movie ending. SO disappointed. YET I am still rating it slightly higher due to the fact that it's a real story with real people and an authentically sincere attempt to transcend the garbage of 99% of what's out there right now. It's worth seeing. Just prepare to be disappointed with the last 20 minutes.

This was interesting and moody. The main guy reminds me of Anthony bourdain

This one hit a little close for me, having worked in finance in NYC, and ached to get out of that world and into "something else." I knew many people in the same situation and many are still looking for whatever will bring undefinable happiness. Likewise, being the spouse or child of these restless souls comes with a whole new set of challenges.

I thought the film did a really nice job fleshing out the characters and putting them in amusing and/or crisis situations, telling the stories of lives in upheaval. Ben Mendelsohn was terrific as the unfulfilled husband and father who drifted away (but never too far away) from the life he once had. There's a full and satisfying story here, some humor and grief, and this tale of suburban angst finishes with almost everyone pretty much where they belong. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would, and would recommend if you enjoy "slice of life" stuff and you don't need tension and explosions and car chases.

In well cast but sluggish 2018 suburban small-town drama "The Land Of Steady Habits" Ben Medelsohn's been through a mid-life crisis that had him quit his high-paying but soulless city finance job, divorce Edie Falco (now dating Bill Camp), and dabble in casual sex (including with Connie Britton) & softish drugs with son Thomas Mann's kinda buddy Charlie Tahan. The melodrama ripples along, carried by the undoubted talent of the cast (which also includes Elizabeth Marvel) but quite what experienced writer / director Nicole Holofcener was aiming for in tone & ultimate meaning is unclear. It may be a slice of life and/or a document of its time, but uplifting & entertaining it ain't.

Anders Harris (Ben Mendelsohn) retired from work and divorced his wife Helene (Edie Falco) to find happiness. He's not happy. He picks up ladies while shopping and can't get it up. His son Preston (Thomas Mann) is not happy either. His wife's friend Sophie Ashford (Elizabeth Marvel) is not happy with him. Sophie's druggie son Charlie Ashford (Charlie Tahan) is not happy with his parents. Anders and Charlie bond over their dislike of his parents and a bit of drug. Anders hooks up with Barbara (Connie Britton).

This is a passable black comedy about a lot of unhappy people. I would like this more if I like Anders more. I just don't like him. Barbara is right about him. It would be so much better if he is only self-destructive. More than anything, I want him to help Charlie. He isn't even willing to let his kid crash on his couch for a night. There is tough love and there is tough love.

It is a well-done movie, especially if you can relate to very wealthy people who are, apparently, isolated from the rest of us. A successful finance executive quits his job to leave the rat race, but still lives in a killer condo amongst his peers. There just isn't any reality here, even when a couple loses their son - nothing. It's all mechanics with no emotion.

By watching this film, you won't get a story, or some profound way to "live the best life" it's about reality, it's about knowing the things that you do or plan will always not result in happiness. Savour it's slowness in solitude, hopefully you will connect with Anders.

What another Nicole Holofcener film in as many weeks, this one from 2018 & a Netflix original (who knew?) & also an adaptation, based on a novel by Ted Thompson, which follows a man, Ben Mendelsohn, who has dropped out of the rat race & divorced his wife, Edie Falco, to hopefully live the good life but after scoring some quick delights w/some women he meets in the most random of places (he buys a tchotchke at one store to decorate his condo & ends up bedding the saleswoman) but life has a funny habit of getting in the way as his finances start to look bleak so much so he might have to broker the subject w/Falco into selling their house which he left her in the divorce. Their son, Thomas Mann, isn't doing much better working at his mom's charity where his old gambling habits come back to bite him when he borrows money from one of the clients he's supposed to be helping. In a chance encounter at a dinner party, Mendelsohn meets up w/one of Mann's old friends, Charlie Tahan, himself a recovering drug addict (or so his parents believe), & shares an angel dust encrusted doobie which doesn't garner him any favors w/the rest of the adults in his life which comes to a head when Tahan passes (from exposure after running away on his way to rehab) & Mendelsohn was the last person to see him. Working from someone else's material, Holofcener still manages to leave her mark w/characters not too dissimilar to the ones found in her concrete jungles of Manhattan w/Mendelsohn in what could be construed as a somewhat normal role still finds himself as befuddled w/his situation whether or not he gets the Death Star active. Also starring Connie Britton as one of Mendelsohn conquests, Bill Camp as the new man in Falco's life, Josh Pais as a friend of Mendelsohn w/Elizabeth Marvel as Tahan's mom.

Although Ben Mendelsohn does a good job, this movie is full of extremely unlikeable characters with no motivation whatsoever. I didn't really understand why Anders Hill did everything he did throughout the movie, and the same goes for every other character. The editing is pretty poor too; so many badly edited shot/reverse shot cuts. The music is fine and so is the writing, but it just tries so hard to be another American Beauty.

Well, Godless Hollywood people can only write about what they know. Dysfunctional families and existential angst is what they know. So here's another portrayal of suburban families with no particular purpose or structure wondering why their hoped-for perfect world collapsed. Mendelsohn plays the same guy he often plays, which is the sort of confused, corrupted-but-loveable man-child who gets into mischief. But he does it well. He has a weird way of speaking. I guess it's because he's hiding his Australian accent.

Nobody here has much depth or really believes in anything. But I suppose it does portray one kind of reality in the suburbs. There are such characters. I just felt like it wasn't about anything.

It seems that our main character really hasn't learned anything about himself, or why his son is so aimless. They both still seem aimless at the end. Or perhaps he is growing up and starting something with a new lady. I don't know. There is nothing more than a brief, feeble attempt to explain his angst. Yet this same angst created massive upheaval in his family and community. The acting here is decent. But stay away unless you have a lot of patience for depressing characters with few redeeming qualities.