George Monroe has
lived alone for ten years in a run down shack on the Southern California
coast. All the other homes in this area could
be called estates but not the one George and his dog live in. His dog has a ‘bad’ habit of peeing on the
car, newspaper and yard of one of the neighbors. The plumbing is out and George uses the ocean. George has worked building scale models
of architectural projects for the same firm for twenty-five years. Everything is moving to computers and
George is let go. He learns he has
advanced cancer and he decides he will finally build the house he has always
wanted to live in. He wants his
rebellious sixteen-year-old son Sam to help him and he wants to try to change
Sam’s life.
Building the house
changes more than Sam’s life, it changes George, Sam’s mother, her husband, her
younger children, the neighbors and other people in Sam’s life. I thought it was interesting and good
how the project expands and it rises into a new house from a shack. 3 ½* (I liked this movie)
125
min, Drama directed by Irwin Winkler with Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas,
Hayden Christensen, Jena Malone, Mary Steenburgen, Ian Somerhalder, Jamey
Sheridan, Scott Bakula.
Note: Imdb 7.5 out of 10, 47% critic 88%
audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 2 ½*, Amazon 4.6* out of 5* with 484 reviews.
Special Note: Filmed in Long Beach, Los Angeles, Malibu, Palos Verdes, Santa Catalina Island, California and Bermuda.
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