Review of Linoleum

Linoleum (2022)
7/10
Linoleum
3 July 2023
Jim Gaffigan plays Cameron Edwin, a gentle man, and aspiring astronaut with a daughter and wife who is to soon divorce him. When the job he loves as a children's tv science program presenter is taken from him, he decides to do something special - with the help of his ailing father he sets out to build a rocket to take him into space. Strange little things start taking place which Cameron doesn't understand including an old woman's frequent appearance and the fact that the father of his daughter's new friend looks very much like Cameron.

Sweet natured, rather lovely film with a glowing, fatherly turn from Gaffigan. The events, whilst strange and often without motive, reason or real direction don't trouble the viewer and all in all it's an enjoyable, bewildering but pleasant journey. Where it will really get to you is in the clever and slightly heart wrenching climactic 15 minutes where everything that has occurred is explained - and it doesn't disappoint.
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