Three siblings gather at brother Mitchel's wake. Mason tries contacting his dead twin, Molly plans compulsively, Megan returns with secrets. A mysterious visitor reveals truth about Mitchel'... Read allThree siblings gather at brother Mitchel's wake. Mason tries contacting his dead twin, Molly plans compulsively, Megan returns with secrets. A mysterious visitor reveals truth about Mitchel's death.Three siblings gather at brother Mitchel's wake. Mason tries contacting his dead twin, Molly plans compulsively, Megan returns with secrets. A mysterious visitor reveals truth about Mitchel's death.
Nathan Zachary
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Too many characters in this story, distracting from the main drama: the death of a twin, which seems almost an afterthought. Instead of concentrating on that and the relationship of the 2 siblings (and the one's love interest) their family become the relevant focus, which might make sense....but! The problem is that for no particular reason a large amount of time is spent around the little annoying sister; she's not fun, nice, key to the story or the narrative; so is the grandma, a conservative religious woman dressed -why?- for a kinky party. The main characters, the living twin, and the dead-twin-boyfriend, have a limited, fragmented time, where we understand little and wish for much more, to no avail. Even the last scene, at the cemetery, where we expect something to happen, is interrupted after 1 minute by: the grandma, the little horrible sister, the other sister fresh of an intercourse in a car, and her uber-boyfriend. A movie with a great potential, but a poor direction. BRAVO to Noah Urrea for his portrait of Mason, but unfortunately, he cannot alone save the movie. A suggestion: do not use smart kids in films, they are often unbearable. That little girl is the perfect example of what one should never do in a movie. Over the top, and incredibly ANTIPATICO.
Sometimes I wonder how people manage to bring out a movie without anyone saying to them that they have made an awful bad movie. Really everything in this movie is wrong: the directing, the pace, the composition, the sound recording, the script, the dialogues, the 'special' effects, the acting, the timing, the focus on the themes, even the choise of music and the make up And the voice of character Molly sounds so irritating that even my dog went nervous from it.
What a waste of time, probably talent and money.
They should use this movie as a case for students who are learning the art of making a movie to show them them all the possible mistakes they never should make.
What a waste of time, probably talent and money.
They should use this movie as a case for students who are learning the art of making a movie to show them them all the possible mistakes they never should make.
This style of story is always hard to tell... this moved me so much as someone who tried to take their own life and having seen it aswell.
It will always be a hard topic to show off well and there are a few faults that is for sure but I think the writing was generally good and it showed the real fundamental things even if harsh which shows how others and how they behave push us to the edge of darkness. The acting was alright it wasn't the greatest but this had a lot of heart and it deserves a lot of props for that. It might be one of my favourite attempts to broach a really dark subject material.
It will always be a hard topic to show off well and there are a few faults that is for sure but I think the writing was generally good and it showed the real fundamental things even if harsh which shows how others and how they behave push us to the edge of darkness. The acting was alright it wasn't the greatest but this had a lot of heart and it deserves a lot of props for that. It might be one of my favourite attempts to broach a really dark subject material.
A fair portrait of family , together to commemorate the memory of one of its late members. The brother, the sisters, the boyfriend, the stap mother, the grand mother, the pastor and his girl friend and the father.
Secrets and hidden sufferences, attitudes, secrets and options. And, sure, vulnerabilities.
A beautiful film , not only for image or acting but, first, for the problems explored in fair - honest manner. Admirable portrait of Mason , remembering, in some measure, Conrad from Ordinary People by Robert Redford , offered by Noah Urrea , smart craft of tension and beautiful, realistic image of precociious child - Molly - In fact, the realism is the basic source of seduction of this just touching film.
Secrets and hidden sufferences, attitudes, secrets and options. And, sure, vulnerabilities.
A beautiful film , not only for image or acting but, first, for the problems explored in fair - honest manner. Admirable portrait of Mason , remembering, in some measure, Conrad from Ordinary People by Robert Redford , offered by Noah Urrea , smart craft of tension and beautiful, realistic image of precociious child - Molly - In fact, the realism is the basic source of seduction of this just touching film.
This movie was good. The family comes together at the request of the youngest child (who I think has OCD) to honor Mitchel who has passed potentially via suicide. Mason is trying to connect with his dead twin brother, however, he can. There are family issues with the the father afraid to face the truth, the stepmother who appears cold, the alcoholic older sister, the boyfriend, etc... it felt real without being exhaustive or extremely heavy. In the end you realize we're all people trying to get through it.
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- 1h 37m(97 min)
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- 1.85 : 1
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