This film is based on a novel written by Charles Baxter. A group of friends living in Portland Oregon meet Chole. She is young and she has a free spirit. She changes their outlook on life in ways that they didn’t expect. Harry is a college professor and writer but he is not teaching at this time. He sits quietly in a local coffee shop and he sees the locals residents become swept in the magical mischief of love. Shop owner Bradley is married but his wife believes he doesn’t know anything about her. They get a divorce. Real estate agent Diana is seeing a married man and she meets Bradley. Diana and Bradley get married. Chloe starts working at the coffee shop and she meets Oscar, he also works at the shop. Oscar is a nice guy, used to be on drugs but his father is a piece of work!! Harry and his wife Esther are still grieving the loss of their son.
Love is the answer and this well-meaning drama tries to offer some positive life lessons. Support your friends and family, if love betrays you, try again. There is infidelity, abuse, addiction, some nudity, graphic sex, language is strong, a man hits a woman, a woman hits a man. In reality, the other side of the coin is that some people are just in love with the idea of being in love and anything about the other person doesn’t matter?? You can convince yourself that you really know them but it is possible that is not the case at all. You have a different picture in your head than what they really are? There are also times when friends or even strangers can see more truth in your relationship than you can see yourself!! There are different kinds of love, young, older, not returned and parental. 4 1/2* (I really liked this movie)
97 min Drama, directed by Robert Benton and written by Allison Burnett with Morgan Freeman, Radha Mitchell, Alexa Davalos, Billy Burke, Selma Blair, Toby Hemingway, Stana Katic, Erika Marozsan, Fred Ward, Margo Martindale, Missi Pyle, Shannon Lucio, Alex Mentzel.
Note: Imdb 6.6 out of 10 with 15,676 views, Roger Ebert 2*, Rotten Tomatoes 40% with 116 critics 55% audience with 117,439 user ratings, Metacritic 51 out of 100 with 28 critic reviews (13 positive 13 mixed 2 negative) 6.6 out of 10 with 20 ratings (11 positive 5 mixed 4 negative, Common Sense Media S. Jhoanna Robledo, age 17+, 3* out of 5*, violence 3*, sex 5*, language 3*, 3* drinking, drugs & smoking, dove.org sex 5, language 5, violence 2, drugs 2, nudity 5, other fortune teller a comment of no choice but to leave the spouse, Amazon 4* out of 5* with 253 reviews.
Special Note: Filmed in several locations in Portland. The shop is Fresh Pot Coffeeshop on Mississippi Avenue. Toby Hemingway as Oscar and Alexa Davalos as Chloe have the same birthday, May 28. Alexa Davalos was the character Juliana Crain on the Amazon series The Man in the High Castle.
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