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Global warming aside, I very much enjoyed this Film. Wonderful performance by Holly Hunter as Darcy. Tight script, loved the dialogue between the female characters, especially Glenne Headly with that distinctive voice and delivery. RIP Nice way to spend an afternoon with a Cup of Tea and maybe a Puff or 2 to cushion the sad parts.

Not really that impressive. I did not get much from it.

So Holly Hunter plays a woman that lost her son,  a few years back and then discovers that someone stole hurt son's idea and she's wants to do something about it. It a very personal piece about a mother's grief and wondering what part she had to play in her son's death and how big the part was. You get the point but I still did not get much from watching this story unfold.

I like the way the film looks and that's pretty much it.

Strange Weather is a movie about an inherently strange woman who has driven herself half mad with grief and guilt over the suicide of her son, which took place seven years prior. The only things that keep her tenuous sanity and volatile personality in check are the close relationships with old friends, some of whom are also colleagues, and even more. The main character goes against southern type -- she's a liberal, intellectual, education minded woman who at the same time puts across a distinct trailer trash vibe. A chance meeting with an old friend of her son's and an accidental revelation about the success of another of his school friends are catalysts for the journey she undertakes to once and for all sort out why her son killed himself at her house.

It's never easy to lose a child. And while I have not made that experience myself, I don't think it's tough putting yourself into the shoes of the character portrayed by Helen Hunt. But don't expect this to be just drama that weighs on you and just is as heavy as one can imagine. Because this is also about dealing with that pain and finding answers .... Emphasis is on trying.

There is an array of really good supporting cast surrounding her and even if Helen gets an answer to a question she never asked, the story moves on with the same timing and slow speed. It is consistent in that regard. It's not super relevatory but it is more than decent and it's a good story overall

My wife and I mostly wanted to watch this movie because we are Holly Hunter fans, she always does a great job of creating a character and her role here is no exception. It is set in N. Georgia, then involves a road trip to New Orleans through Mississippi. Most of it was filmed in Mississippi, Hunter was about 57 or 58 and skinny as a rail.

Seven years earlier her son had died of a self-inflicted gunshot. She had never really gotten over it, she still wonders if she somehow was at fault. What might she have done differently? Things change when she finds out her son's former friend and college mate has a successful chain of hot-dog businesses. As she digs, including the website for the business, she realizes that friend stole the idea, including the whole back story and the name of the business, from her son. She is positive because she had typed up the entire business proposal for his graduate school class.

So she has to dig more, she has to find out what really happened that night seven years earlier when a bunch of friends had gotten together. She has to take the road trip to New Orleans.

We found the viewing worthwhile. As I already mentioned here, Holly Hunter really gives a great performance, she is a tiny woman but very menacing when the need arises.

Streaming on Amazon Prime.

I think the movie could of told more about the son Walker, didn't really get to know him.

The movie itself was just ok. However it did capture the American south in the scenery, characters, etc. I liked it just for that reason.

Good acting doesn't cut it. Feels like that's all there is. I forced myself through 40 minutes of emotionless emotion before I gave up. They are going somewhere with the feeling of going nowhere. I really get bored from films like this.

This is very in keeping with a certain part of Holly Hunter's more indie range, though Melissa Leo probably could have played the part just as well. Lots of aimless conflict, understated - to the point of being shapeless - emotion, confrontations that ultimately prove pointless. Hunter's emotional reality is always strong, it's just that it has to stand in here for plot and development. In its own lowkey way, the film is fairly predictable, hitting marks you've seen in more than one indie road flick. None of this is bad, just not, for anyone who's seen a wide range of films new or particularly compelling.

Holly Hunter is at the center of this prickly why-done-it as a mother tries to put together the pieces as to why he son committed suicide 7 years prior. An engaging piece of Southern Gothic wrapped in the seemingly suffocating confines of life along the edges, Hunter's character goes from an aimless wastrel to a full fledged detective peeling away the painful scabs that come from doubt & blame. The smallness of this film works wonders as the emotions never become overblown & merely exist along the fine edges of one's temperament & disposition. A fine show all around.

I cannot understand why this movie was underestimated. Holly is so big and intense, some level of an Isabelle Huppert. There are scenes that are so strong and unexpected I felt holding my breath. The dialogues are always clean and precise. The whole atmosphere of contemporary USA's south complete the movie. Must see.

A "road movie" loaded with pain, loss and that deplorable feeling of helplessness, a good plot, could have invested more in the son's tragic death, however the focus is all on the mother's pain, and the search for why he committed such attempt on life itself, a simple, short and sensitive outcome ... Single Movie ...

Holly Hunter's performance is truly Oscar material. A truly underated film, with a masterful script.

This movie didn't go a single step to cater to the action and twist driven drama that is the usual fare for the simple minded audience. Instead it tells a heartfelt story that feels profoundly real. The primary characters have deep friendships that can survive telling each other hard truths that need telling. When I realized where it was NOT going it gripped me even more firmly. I loved this film, cried twice, and adore Holly Hunter as much now as I did my first time seeing her in Raising Arizona. She is 6 weeks older than me and still makes my heart beat fast, dangerous at my age. This is a real drama that will survive over time and someday be a classic.

11/22/2018 Pay no attention to the lowly, always slobbering crybaby reviews. Apparently they can type but lack the capacity to understand quality of content over lesser values in movies. This is the kind of intelligent, well done movie that we're constantly searching for and unfortunately seldom find. If you had the presence of forethought to preread the IMDb reviews, then know that: "You're in for a treat". Bon Appetit

Given the "Sub 7" overall score, I thought I was taking a chance with this.... Wow, what a knockout this is. I've now watched it twice in 10 days, the second viewing better than the first, as portents missed in the first view, came out in the second. Marvellous acting all round, with assured direction. Humour contrasted with sadness, a free spirit with regimentation. Loneliness and relationships. And betrayal big time.

Can't recommend enough, enjoy.

The lesson in Louisiana culture alone would have been worth it to watch this movie. We all know the immense difficulties in grieving a loved, but losing a son to suicide is unspeakable. This movie hits all the chords and pulls on almost all the broken heart strings addressing the issue like a hammer hitting a nail. Yet you barely know it, you just notice Holly Hunter stepping into a role making it 100% hers the way she does, and some top notch co-stars like Glenne Headly and Carrie Coon just made this a marvelous moving movie. Even Kim Coates has gone up a notch in my book. I'm so surprised it's only listed as a 6 something but probably kids watching didn't get it. Those of us older folks having experienced losses like that, we do.

Holly Hunter and Carrie Coon together in one movie? I signed on to this immediately upon stumbling on it randomly on Netflix.

Hunter is a boss in this role, as usual. The movie might be a little slow but the acting pushes it forward nicely and I really enjoyed it.

Director & Writer: Katherine Dieckmann really excelled. Editing was good as was the passion felt by all the actors. Holly Hunter was exceptional ! Just sad to see once again, the pain that Mothers and Fathers feel by the loss of their child, had the added, (unnecessary addition) of a lesbo relationship.

I always believe that every person should live their life as they choose. However Katherine Dieckmann, it really was not necessary, as it took away part of the centro of the movie = The mother's fight and her pain of losing her son.. JMO.

It was still a very good movie..