Last Thursday of November... I may be biased because I have a lot of respect for Robert Downey Jr., but the film impressed me.
It would seem that the plot is banal simple - the whole family at one table on Thanksgiving (here I am these bourgeois holidays!), just like we are on New Year or Christmas. Feel the atmosphere? Right, a priori, there should be a scandal. I do not claim the ultimate truth and I do not want to offend anyone. But understand me correctly - if a family in which three children, and absolutely different in worldview and in relation to life in general, meets once a year, inevitably there is a clash on the basis of "this."
Claude, who has just lost her job and her lover (part-time employer), learns on the eve of leaving for her parents that her daughter has “firmly decided” to lose her virginity. On such a low note, she comes to her father’s house. Home, sweet Home... Everything is still there – a mom who hides her return under a wig and a “I’m fine” mask, a dad who spends all his time between the fridge and the TV, a brother... and a brother brings a friend to the house, who she thinks is his next lover.
Here is the plot of the story, in which the above-described faces are also joined by a sister with family and Aunt Gladys, a little with greetings. And here they are at the table, saying thanksgiving to God, drinking wine, eating turkey... which after a while with a light hand (literally) Brother Tommy is on the lap of Sister Joanne. And here we go. .
What did I take for myself after this movie? Love each other, because they are closer to you and they have no one, even if you throw fried birds at each other and roll each other out of a hose with ice water. Very take for the soul of the relationship between brother and sister, they sympathize and want to believe.
And a little bit about actors. Holly Hunter is a great performance as a middle-aged woman, with many problems, not without self-irony, who, no matter what, will still have. I loved Anne Bencroft as the mother of this family. And, undoubtedly, the decoration of this film is Robert Downey Jr. As mentioned in previous reviews, without him the film would have fallen into banal melodrama. He also brought a significant amount of humor to the film, his signature grins. I always admire him from film to film, from Chaplin about ten years ago, when I began to get acquainted with his filmography, to Holmes. I have reviewed all of his films available to us and I want to say that he had no passing roles, there were passing films, but it is not his fault. He's capable of pulling any movie. I'm sorry if my review of one movie turned into a eulogy to Roberta, that's it.
Thank you so much to Jodie Foster for a great movie. I will review it again and again.
9 out of 10