Great scenery. Terrible fashion.
Nominated for:
Best Actor (George Clooney)
Directing (Alexander Payne)
Best Picture
Adapted Screeplay (Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash)
Also nominated for:
Film Editing (Kevin Trent)
There are some really strong performances in this film (Matthiew Lillard is all grown up!), but this movie is all about The Clooney. He really does sell it. His performance creates some lovely moments that just kinda break your heart into a million little bits.
Alexander Payne seems to excel at telling stories about disillusioned, unhappy middle-aged men (you can take that as a positive or a negative...). And while the movie kinda drags during the third act, I think the sincerity of the performances and the writing is enough to win over plenty of audiences.
Eli
PS - One last point - this movie gets props for showing what someone actually looks like when comatose. So... yeah.
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