I rented this on a whim, 'cause everything else at Blockbuster looked stinky. I didn't know a thing about it, but WOW. I actually think it might take a spot in my Top 10.
This description from IMDB sums it up as best as possible, I think:
"Trapped in his mother's Lower East Side apartment, sixteen-year-old Finn (Anton Yelchin) wants nothing more than to escape New York and spend the summer in South America studying the Iskanani Indians, or "Fierce People," with the anthropologist father he's never met. But Finn's dreams are shattered when he is arrested in a desperate effort to help his drug-dependent mother, Liz (Diane Lane), who scrapes by working as a masseuse. Determined to get their lives back on track, Liz moves the two of them into a guesthouse on the vast country estate of her ex-client, the aging aristocratic billionaire, Ogden C. Osbourne (Donald Sutherland). In Osbourne's close world of privilege and power, Finn and Liz encounter a tribe fiercer and more mysterious than anything they might find in the South American jungle: the super rich. While Liz battles her substance abuse and struggles to win back her son's love and trust, Finn falls in love with Osbourne's beautiful granddaughter, Maya (Kristin Stewart), befriends her charismatic older brother, Bryce (Chris Evans), and even wins the favor of Osbourne himself. But when a shocking act of violence shatters Finn's ascension within the Osbourne clan, the golden promises of this lush world quickly sour. And both Finn and Liz, caught in a harrowing struggle for their dignity, discover that membership always comes at a price..."
So, add it to your Netflix queues.
A little funny, a little sad, all-around quirky and enthralling - very excellent.
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We just watched this last night! I loved it! Did you notice the two Pomeranians the lady was carrying down the street? I'm wondering if Halo (our baby Pom puppy) will have fur that long.
If, any of you watch the movie watch for the two poms. I swear the
length of their fur must be 5 to 6 inches long. Btw., Halo's is about 2 1/2 to 3 inches long now. Oh, and one last thing & I'll shut up about my dog...our dog is smaller than the two the
lady in the movie is carrying..but my dog does have the same coloring as the lightest one.
1will check it out..thanks!
2was it never in theaters?
3I don't know, Emma. I had never heard of it, and IMDB says it came out in '05 but was just released on DVD very recently. Very good film - definitely worth checking out.
Yeah - I remember the poms, BB. I wouldn't want to clean up after that. Or groom.
4added to my queue!
5Never heard of it
6I just rented this last night! It was really good. Although, I was a little confused as to what happened to Finn.. I didn't want to assume the worst - but they never actually discussed the details, either. There are two things we were trying to decide between, but.. urgh, it's unresolved.
7Ok - apparently it was one of the two things i was thinking..
8Thanks for the heads up, I love Lane and Sutherland.
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9"The years, No doubt, Have changed me"
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