{"id":5635,"date":"2009-11-04T11:46:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T19:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=5635"},"modified":"2009-11-04T11:46:04","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T19:46:04","slug":"everybodys-fine-kirk-jones-2009-usaitaly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=5635","title":{"rendered":"Everybody’s Fine (Kirk Jones, 2009): USA\/Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Lisa Blondell<\/a>. \u00a0Viewed at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Hollywood.<\/p>\n

\"\"One of director Kirk Jones\u2019 first films has a star-studded cast, including Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, and Sam Rockwell.\u00a0\u00a0 Everybody\u2019s Fine<\/a><\/em> is a character driven film which introducing the audience to almost every emotion.\u00a0 I laughed, cried, and felt uplifted.\u00a0 At the Hollywood Film Festival, this film won the Hollywood Film Award and Hollywood Actor Award for Robert De Niro.\u00a0 This film is not just another \u201cfamily feel good film,\u201d it is a touching story of determination, struggle, lies, love, and reconnection.<\/p>\n

For Frank (De Niro) communicating with his children was more about lecturing and pressuring them to succeed, rather than listening to their feelings; that was his wife\u2019s job.\u00a0 When his wife passed away, Frank lost connection to his family.\u00a0 When Frank finally realizes he is slowly divorcing himself with his kids, he decides to take a spontaneous road trip across the country to spend time with each of this grown up children.\u00a0 Although he spends time with his kids, he still feels distance with each of them.\u00a0 Throughout the entire film, the filmmaker gives the audience a glimpse of what Frank is thinking by showing the grown up children as young kids.\u00a0 I thought that was a key element in getting into Frank\u2019s head.\u00a0 There is one scene that really stood out to me.\u00a0 Frank is having an illusory lunch with the kids, but the kids are very young.\u00a0 The little bit of confusion when Frank meets with each kid, is completely cleared up that moment.\u00a0 This scene is informational to the audience as well as beautifully shot and suitable to the storyline.<\/p>\n

Having the opportunity to meet Barrymore after the film and see De Niro before the film may have influenced my opinion of the film a bit, but it was hands down one of the best films I saw at this year\u2019s AFI Film Festival.\u00a0 Everybody\u2019s Fine is being released in December, just in time for the holidays.\u00a0 I strongly recommend seeing this film this holiday season with either your parents, siblings, or both.\u00a0 It truly shows the importance of family.\u00a0 This film is not just targeted to an older audience.\u00a0 It is relatable to a multiple audience, whether you have a very strong relationship with your family or a weak one.\u00a0 Widowers may relate, sisters and brothers may relate, parents and children may relate to this film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Lisa Blondell. \u00a0Viewed at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Hollywood. One of director Kirk Jones\u2019 first films has a star-studded cast, including Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, and Sam Rockwell.\u00a0\u00a0 Everybody\u2019s Fine is a character driven film which introducing the audience to almost every emotion.\u00a0 I laughed, cried, and felt uplifted.\u00a0 At the Hollywood Film […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afi-filmfest-2009","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}