Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Year: 2010
Writers: Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg
Cinematographer: Igor Jadue-Lillo
Most real family interaction that I've seen in a movie, great family-affirming drama. The one thing I found to be a distracting stretch was how eager the film was to wrap up. I felt that it resolved the cheating spouse issue a little too quickly, I didn't believe that Annette Bening's character would be able to get over that betrayal. It tried to explain it, and I almost believed it, I wanted to... but it was just too soon, too fresh a betrayal to believe that she could start moving past it already. Aside from that instance, I think Cholodenko deserves praise for her realistic understanding of human emotion in her writing parts for teens (who are almost never depicted realistically on screen) and family tensions. Annette Bening is the stand-out performance here, but not quite enough to take the oscar in my opinion.
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