Last Weekend 2014

     Celia and Malcom Green own a vacation home on the shore of Lake Tahoe in California.  It’s Labor Day Weekend and they have invited their son Theo and his friend Luke from New York.  Their other son Roger is coming with his girlfriend Vanessa.  Roger doesn’t want his parents to know that he was recently fired from his job because of a typo that cost the company 30 million dollars!!  Malcom Green owns fitness gyms and Vanessa would like to get her boutique-flavored waters placed in his gyms.  Theo has invited Nora Finley-Perkins and her husband Sean Oakes.  Theo writes for a television show, Nora is his boss and he has given her a screenplay to read.  He has also invited Blake Curtis, the female star of the television show.  Celia and Malcom feel this will be their last weekend in Tahoe because they are thinking of selling this home since they also have another vacation home.

     This is not a very pleasant movie.  Theo has only known Luke for three weeks.  Roger is on pins and needles about his parents finding out he is a loser because of his job error.  There is a lot of arguing between everyone.  Also, squabbles, spats, tiffs, 

misunderstandings, nitpicking and unnecessary revelations.  Both Theo and Roger seemed spoiled and not very appreciative of anything they receive.  The only positive about this movie is Patricia Clarkson.   2* (I didn’t like this movie)

94 min, Drama directed by Tom Dolby, Tom Williams with Patricia Clarkson, Zachary Booth, Joseph Cross, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Rutina Wesley, Fran Kranz, Devon Graye, Joseph Cross, Alexia Rasmussen, Sheila Kelley, Mary Kay Place, Judith Light, Chris Mulkey, Julie Carmen, Jayma Mays.

Note:  Imdb 5.2 out of 10, 33% critic 39% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 1*.

Special Note:  This home was previously featured in the film A Place in the Sun released in 1951.  Tom Dolby, the director, is the son of Dolby Laboratories founder Ray Dolby and Tom spent summer and winter holidays at this lake house.  In this film, it seems to be stuffed with every kind of clutter imaginable?  Maybe it's Patricia Clarkson's clutter?