I went to watch the movie and was fairly impressed with the many ways people can handle and not handle grief. That was the focal point of the movie and yet, there was this very quirky, fun love story threaded through the middle of it. It was very well done and enjoyable.
Coming from a mountain community where a mailman lost two of his daughters and all of his grandchildren to a bus in LA, I can tell you that grief is a long road and all the steps in the movie are true - even the "smile for 5 minutes: eventually it will become a real smile." However, the most beautiful part was when the guy stopped traffic and asked his group to describe what they heard and saw. One partaker said, "Well, people are giving us the finger." Then the leading character takes them all up to the roof top for a truly peace-filled moment and change in perspective. If anything, the director should have drawn this scene out more - it was a Kodak moment.
I tell you some scriptwriters are simply amazingly wonderful people. How intuitive! How insightful! The cell phone message was probably the most honest rendition of how most people grieve today - pure magic. The scriptwriters (Brandon Camp and Mike Thompson) didn't sugar coat the situation, nor did they glorify it. They simply provided a different way of seeing it - and did a fabulous job!
If critics said bad things they don't know how to be objective and should look for a new job!
The acting was fabulous (precisely because no one went over the top) and the last scene with Martin Sheen and the cockatoo was priceless. I can honestly say this was a movie that was better the second time around - to value it fully.
Bravo! Thank you for an enjoyable, light-hearted comedy that had a deep-hearted consideration of a topic most people can't handle and actually run away from...
Coming from a mountain community where a mailman lost two of his daughters and all of his grandchildren to a bus in LA, I can tell you that grief is a long road and all the steps in the movie are true - even the "smile for 5 minutes: eventually it will become a real smile." However, the most beautiful part was when the guy stopped traffic and asked his group to describe what they heard and saw. One partaker said, "Well, people are giving us the finger." Then the leading character takes them all up to the roof top for a truly peace-filled moment and change in perspective. If anything, the director should have drawn this scene out more - it was a Kodak moment.
I tell you some scriptwriters are simply amazingly wonderful people. How intuitive! How insightful! The cell phone message was probably the most honest rendition of how most people grieve today - pure magic. The scriptwriters (Brandon Camp and Mike Thompson) didn't sugar coat the situation, nor did they glorify it. They simply provided a different way of seeing it - and did a fabulous job!
If critics said bad things they don't know how to be objective and should look for a new job!
The acting was fabulous (precisely because no one went over the top) and the last scene with Martin Sheen and the cockatoo was priceless. I can honestly say this was a movie that was better the second time around - to value it fully.
Bravo! Thank you for an enjoyable, light-hearted comedy that had a deep-hearted consideration of a topic most people can't handle and actually run away from...
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