Shelly Lynn

A gem of a movie. Beautifully acted and wonderful script. For an older viewer, who has experienced love and loss, regrets and sorrows, this film is an emotional experience. Not too many filmgoers have the patience to watch two hours of dialogue, which is essentially what this film is, but the authenticity of their relationship and the youthful misunderstandings that so often lead our lives in the wrong directions had been in tears. Add the elements of surrealism and magic and the film is even more impactful.There is even a quality of Beckett's absurdism. I loved the film and I think the dialogue and direction were brilliant. Bravo Meg Ryan.

A superficial portrayal of a dysfunctional family and a depressed teenager. The acting was fine but the script was lacking. The ending, where the father imagines his son alive and successful, was cringeworthy. This is an important topic--the devastating results of divorce on children--but it was handled in such a simplistic way as to not be believable. The only gripping and realistic scene was the doctor in the hospital pleading with the parents not to take their boy home, but of course they were feeling too guilty themselves to make him stay. I knew as soon as he went to take a shower that he was going to kill himself. He simply wanted to go home so he could finish the job. This was a subject that could have been handled with much more insight and the complexity it deserves.

Do we not have enough real antisemitism in the world to contend with these days without reinforcing it with this tasteless rubbish? This film is nothing but insulting racist cliches and embarrassing characters. Hard to believe that Jonah Hill was one of the writers.