Tudo em Família

Straight A's is a 2013 comedy drama about a former addict who, pressured by his mother's ghost returns home to Louisiana.

This is a very good independent film about wanting to make up for mistakes and lost time. Scott portrayed by Ryan Phillippe knows that he's a screw up and doesn't want to be, but can't seem to help himself. So after discovering something he decides to go home at his mother's request to make amends with his brother, his lost love, and his father.

The acting in this movie is fantastic, with a great cast that aside from Phillippe also stars Anna Paquin and Luke Wilson. The story is quite touching and strikes a lot of the right spots making you feel for both sides of the argument as far as the characters are concerned. There's some fun moments in the film that will put a smile on your face along with some sad ones, but as a whole this is a very enjoyable movie.

If you haven't seen this before, I would recommend checking it out.

I watched this movie with a grain of salt, due to all the negative reviews here on IMDb. I was expecting nothing and just killin' some time.

I had to come back to the reviews here to double check that the negative reviews were actually for this movie.

This was an excellent movie. The story is superb, like a really good short story I didn't notice the time and it was over before I realized it.

I don't know if people were expecting something like True Blood or maybe reacting to some of the character's behaviors they didn't like or what. But let me tell you what, this is one well made, well acted and well directed movie. The filming and "artful" effects are done in just enough of a way that really tied it together as well.

I was genuinely surprised that I had not heard of this movie before. I just came across it on Netflix at random.

My conclusion is: it is a very interesting story that I found to be far more real and interesting than the last 30 big Hollywood movies I have seen... Maybe more.

Family black sheep Scott (Ryan Phillippe) comes home on a horse. His brother William (Luke Wilson) is away on business. His sister in-law Katherine (Anna Paquin) was his high school sweetheart. William and Katherine have two kids, but their marriage is a shell. Scott's father (Powers Boothe) is suffering from dementia.

There is a little heat coming from Phillippe and Paquin. It's too bad that Wilson is away from home for most of the movie. The small amount of heat is never nurtured to bring on any fire. This movie moves at a snail's pace. Obviously the little boy has problems. Scott is completely inappropriate. It had promise, but no follow through.

This will be brief. The cast,with many quality proved works behind them can't be blamed for what is obviously a poorly directed, badly written and horrendously edited hack-job. The stunted and forced direction, film- school camera angles and poorly written dialogue are just too much to overcome for even this group of fine actors.

This had to be agony for the actors to sit through if there actually was a premiere, and the wasted storyline that could have been compelling or at the very least engaging was finished off by a lazy cable-network soundtrack and bad staging.

This could have been a very nice story. If this director ever gets another chance to do something like this he need to watch the last Hallmark Hall-of-Fame productions... they do this infinitely better.

I wasn't sure what to expect. Ended up being a good movie. The end left a little to be desired,but overall not a deal breaker. Deserves atleast one chance at watching.