Thomas Webb is the son of a New York publisher and his mother is an artist. He has just graduated from college and he is trying to find his place in the world. He moves from his parents’ Upper West Side apartment to the Lower East Side. He meets a neighbor, W.F. He is an alcoholic writer and he dispenses world wisdom along with his shots of whiskey. Thomas happens to see his father with another woman in a restaurant. This makes Thomas very worried because his mother is very fragile!! If she found out, it would shake the very foundation of her life!! Thomas decides to get to know this other woman. He wants to break up the relationship she is having with his father. Thomas has a girlfriend Mimi but she is planning to leave the USA and go to another country to broaden her horizons. She has asked Thomas to come with her but he’s not sure about that step?
Thomas is a privileged 20 something young man. He is working through maturity but he has some missteps in judgement. He stalks his father’s mistress. He is also following his own dreams to write despite his father’s disapproval. There are surprises and twists in this film that I didn’t see coming!! 3 1/2* (I liked this movie)
89 min, Drama directed by Marc Webb and written by Alan Loeb with Callum Turner, Kate Beckinsale, Pierce Brosnan, Cynthia Nixon, Kiersey Clemons, Tate Donovan, Wallace Shawn, Anh Duong, Debi Mazar, Ben Hollandsworth, John Bolger, Bill Camp, Richard Bekins, Ryan Speakman.
Note: Imdb 6.3* out of 10* with 10,995 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes 34% with 88 critics 49% with 1645 audience scores, Roger Ebert 1 1/2* Glenn Kenny, RollingStone 1 1/2* Peter Travers, Common Sense Media Barbara Shulgasser-Parker 3*, age 15+, 2* positive, 1* role models, 1* violence, 3* sex, 4* language, 3* drinking, drugs & smoking, Amazon 4.3* with 913 reviews.
Special Note: The screenplay written by Alan Loeb sat for 10 years in the Hollywood Blacklist of best unproduced screenplays!! The film was in development from 2012. It was announced on August 25, 2012 that the director of 500 Days of Summer of 2009 would be working on this film. This was just over a month after the release of Webb’s previous movie, The Amazing Spider-Man 2012. There were days of various actors and actresses joining the team and then leaving. Different drafts of the script written and various other problems. Once the film was cast, the script written, after Webb finished the Spider-Man movies and Gifted 2017, the shooting would begin. Five years since it was announced that the film would be made. A total of 12 years before release.
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