Maggie Stuart has
left her husband Cam in the late 1970’s and taken their two daughters with her. Cam is bipolar and he doesn’t take his medication. He also drinks and he has recently had
a breakdown. Maggie is living in a
small rent controlled apartment in with Amelia and
Faith. They are living at the
poverty level and Maggie wants that to change. She has signed up for an accelerated 18 month MBA program at
Columbia University in New York.
She asks Cam to move into her apartment and take care of the girls
during the week. Maggie will come
home every weekend to be with them.
There are a lot of ups and downs with this arrangement.
I thought this was
good but I wonder if in real life Cam was able to take care of the
girls? They get by but are they
safe if something out of the ordinary happens? What about his continual chain smoking? At least times were different in this period as compared
to today and that does give them some slack. He offers stability with his presence in their home but it’s
a ‘different’ kind of parenting and lifestyle. 3 1/2* (I liked this movie)
90
min, Comedy directed by Maya Forbes with Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana, Imogene
Wolodarsky, Ashley Aufderheide, Nekhebet Kum Juch, Manoah Angelo, Muriel Gould,
Rod Randolph, Beth Dixon, Keir Dullea.
Note: Imdb 7.0 out of 10, 79% critic 72%
audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roget Ebert 3 ½*, Amazon 4.2* out of 5* with 114
reviews.
Special
Note: Filmed in Providence, Rhode
Island. Both Saldana and Ruffalo
have played Marvel Comics characters.
Ruffalo as the Hulk in The Avengers, Iron Man 3 and Avengers: Age of
Ultron. Saldana was in Guardians
of the Galaxy. Amelia Stuart is
the fictionalized version of writer and director Maya Forbes. This film is based on
her childhood in Cambridge, Mass and
Imogene Wolodarsky is Forbes’ daughter.
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