There's an art to going home without going crazy.
Jayne and Laura are about to take on the first man they just might not be able to handle: their seventy-something-year-old father Joe. Dutiful daughters returning to the house they grew up in, Jayne and Laura are forced to take a closer look at their own not-so-perfect lives while dodging childhood memories. Laura suspects that Joe needs full-time care, but Jayne hopes that their father's condition isn't that serious. Joe is still singing and playing his old guitar, and the lively widower even has a new "ladyfriend," shameless and sassy Shelly. But as the visible moments of their father's impending senility increase, so do the dysfunctional family dynamics. Tensions flare as the close sisters must also juggle their own very different lives - Laura's busy schedule as an environmentalist and mother of two small children, and Jayne, desperate to finally have a baby with her workaholic art-dealing husband Jackson. Their adventures back home are not without magic, mischief and mayhem, and even a search for buried treasure in the backyard! Any tears that Jayne and Laura might shed will be happy ones.
Genre(s): Drama
Rating: 5.6/10 (86 votes)
Release Date: 11 February 2009
Country: USA
Languages: English
Company: Pierpoline Films
Director(s): Mitchell Lichtenstein
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Producer(s):
Timothy J. DeBaets - executive producer
Jonathan Gray - executive producer
Richard Lormand - associate producer
Joyce M. Pierpoline - producer
Andrew W. Schwertfeger - assistant producer
Writer(s):
Mitchell Lichtenstein - (written by)
Cast:
Demi Moore - Laura
Parker Posey - Jayne
Rip Torn - Joe
Ellen Barkin - Shelly
Christian Camargo - Jackson
Billy Magnussen - Ray
Roger Rees - Antiques Dealer
Sebastian Roché - Laurent
Susan Blommaert - Mallory
Victor Slezak - Eli Bell
Music: Robert Miller
Timothy J. DeBaets - executive producer
Jonathan Gray - executive producer
Richard Lormand - associate producer
Joyce M. Pierpoline - producer
Andrew W. Schwertfeger - assistant producer
Writer(s):
Mitchell Lichtenstein - (written by)
Cast:
Demi Moore - Laura
Parker Posey - Jayne
Rip Torn - Joe
Ellen Barkin - Shelly
Christian Camargo - Jackson
Billy Magnussen - Ray
Roger Rees - Antiques Dealer
Sebastian Roché - Laurent
Susan Blommaert - Mallory
Victor Slezak - Eli Bell
Music: Robert Miller
Posted on: February 19, 2010
Posted in: Drama
February 20th, 2010
Saw this at Cinema Sundays at the Charles here in Baltimore.
The audience liked it a lot, from their reactions during the film andalso at the Q&A. Parker Posey and Demi Moore play two sisters who arefaced with taking care of their father in the house where they grew up.Their father, played by Rip Torn, is becoming less and less composmentis. Not forgetting the wonderful Ellen Barkin, who brings humanityto the role of Shelley, a woman who has reached bottom.
The movie has some pretty trippy sections, a fair amount of things thatmake you not so sure what's supposed to be happening in the movie'sreality, and what's just happening in the head of one of thecharacters.
It's primarily a good-natured comedy about people and how they getalong. It's very funny, with some subtle and unexpected laughs. I can'twait for this to be shown in a local theater so I can see it again.