Mid-thirtysomethings Burt Farlander and Verona De Tessant are a loving couple. Burt has always wanted to marry Verona, but Verona resists, not seeing the point of the institution. Regardless, they are having a baby together, despite questioning their potential parenting abilities. They are happy that they made the decision to move close to Burt’s parents, Jerry and Gloria Farlander, as they want to share the experience with the baby’s grandparents. Verona’s own parents died over ten years earlier, a situation about which she doesn’t like to discuss. In Verona’s sixth month, she and Burt learn that Jerry and Gloria are moving to Antwerpen, Belgium the month before the baby is due, just because it’s something they’ve always wanted to do. Burt and Verona don’t understand what they see as Jerry and Gloria’s selfishness in putting this move above spending time with their impending granddaughter… –IMDb
Delicioso de se ver, a dramédia de “Por uma vida melhor” toma gravidade, consciência e tristeza de assalto, mas sem jamais se tornar pessimista.
A nice film however there was so much more that could of been developed and some scenes went by too quickly to gain any real substance. Yes, granted it is a 'road' film but I just felt a little short changed overall.
C-. Sam Mendes semi-loses his shit and makes an indie comedy bordering on mumblecore. Krasinski and Rudolph are adorable, but there's little more going for it, certainly not laughs. Also, a lot of genuinely intelligent stances (nihilism, earthy feminism, etc.) get maligned into quick gags. :P
Call it the Napoleon Dynamite effect. It may have been used before that, but ever since that 2004 phenomenon, the photo-doodle montage has
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