Everybodys Fine, review

By David Gritten Published: 1:58PM GMT twenty-five February 2010

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Dir: Kirk Jones; Starring: Robert de Niro; Kate Beckinsale, Drew Barrymore; Rating: * * *

12A cert, 99 mins

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Robert De Niro has been spinning his wheels in new years, generally in those neutral Fockers comedies, so the a service to find him personification a purpose suitable for a good actress in the autumn of his career. Everybodys Fine is a reconstitute of Stanno tutto bene, an Italian movie from 1990 that starred Marcello Mastroianni. It finds De Niro personification an aged widower in New York state; his adult young kids (Kate Beckinsale, Drew Barrymore and, most appropriate of all, Sam Rockwell) have drifted afar to live in far away cities.

We progressively sense the old man had unreasonably high expectations for them, and their area from him has enabled them to palm him off with white lies about their lives and careers. When he organises a reunion in the family home that nothing of them manages to attend, he decides to strike the highway and compensate each of them in spin a warn visit.

No question, this is an out-of-date story, with revelations, tears strew and hold up lessons learned. Its tinge is decidedly peaceful and conservative, nonetheless Everybodys Fine creates pointed points about generational conflicts and the removing of wisdom. Its necessary niceness should not be discounted; niceness is a singular commodity in drive-in theatre today.