Michelle Knowles

As someone who's worked with elders with dementia for a long time, I was quite curious about this movie, particularly how Nick Nolte would handle the role. He did an excellent job, though, of portraying a man in the stage of Alzheimer's in which a person is starting to lose his memories as well as remembering how to do daily tasks. It was cool to discover that the girl playing his granddaughter is actually his real life daughter. The bond between them came through quite well as a strong bond between grandpa & granddaughter. I loved the journey they took. It was interesting to see how each main character dealt with Amadeus' decline in their own ways. My parents are just a couple of years older than him, although with no sign of mental decline yet, but they are at a place where age is definitely showing. So this movie is good to me in that way as well. I agree with others who said that this is a good movie that shouldn't have been hidden away. Some people said that some things were exaggerated, but as someone who's seen all kinds of people with various kinds of dementia in different stages, I don't think so. It hits people in different ways, & this movie portrays how one man might have been with it. Anyway, I highly recommend it & hope that more heartwarming movies without violence or swearing (at least not much profanity) or other stuff that's not always necessary like this get made. It's a nice change from the usual North American fare.