This is a nice enough film, where we follow an older woman as she walks a couple hundred miles to get to her granddaughter's wedding. She is a cantankerous old woman, and while I have an affection for cantankerous old women, I think the filmmakers made her too horrible at first. Only someone who had never seen a movie before wouldn't have anticipated that she would grow along her journey, and come out at the end a better person. But even knowing that was going to happen, I thought she was terribly rude at first. When people go out of their way to help her, initially she doesn't even say "thank you." Nor do the road-trip vignettes explain exactly why she goes through this growth and has her inevitable epiphany.
The acting seems good to me. And it's nice to show stories about realistic older people. There is nothing terribly wrong with this movie, but there wasn't enough right with it for me to recommend it enthusiastically to anybody.
The acting seems good to me. And it's nice to show stories about realistic older people. There is nothing terribly wrong with this movie, but there wasn't enough right with it for me to recommend it enthusiastically to anybody.