Our Father's Keeper

Alzheimer's runs in my family so I am well-versed on what a person with Alzheimer's does, how he behaves, and what he looks like. The presentation of this person with Alzheimer's is way out of line with anything I have ever seen. I stopped watching the movie after he was diagnosed with the disease because I got so turned off with what I was seeing. The writer(s) clearly never met a person who had Alzheimer's.

To do a movie about an alzheimers patient is quite difficult: but his story is touching because of the encounter of David and Christine: the young homeless girl helps him with all she can give: the dialogue between them is a great part of this movie. A dialogue full of tenderness and warmth.

A touching movie with very good performances of Shayla McCaffrey and Craig Lindquist.

So just to preface things, I'm not a Christian. So I can't really speak to how well the religious aspect is articulated. But I can attest that this was a pretty crummy movie all in all.

First off this guy had an awful family to lean on. Instead of them choosing the logical option (downsizing), let's just allow our pot smoking convicted son on house arrest, who has no prior training in dealing with adults with Alzheimer's, to be dad's full time caregiver. Well that's just a quality solution. It's also sort of clever how the two young boys on riding their bicycles in cold weather found David, while no one in the three-vehicle family search party found a thing. I guess the family wasn't grateful enough to invite those two young boys to Thanksgiving dinner.

This movie could have been solved after David tried to pick up that young girl. The father who knocked him out against the lamp post should have called the cops. Roll credits.

All jokes aside, some of the dialogue between the homeless girl and David was a bit sentimental, and the "good brother" scolding the "bad brother" was a tad funny, but I can't see how any religious (or non religious person for that matter) could get a life epiphany after watching this.

I don't know what the other woman was going on about in the low review stating that this movie was NOT how they act, well she is WRONG because every person that has alzheimer's acts differently from the other person.

I have a family member that has a bad temper, and has this condition setting in as well as dementia causing confusion. So this movie is very well acted out as it's very close to the real thing.

Sadly the americans do appear to have a bit of a problem creating a proper film which involves "an Angel". Its almost certain that one does appear in this to take care of "dad" when he finds himself outdoors and surrounded by those great americans NONE of whom are capable of spotting someone (even in very cold snowy conditions) with alzheimers! Whilst there is a couple of good performances within the film but it really doesnt quite qualify for a film with a gospel message.