"I respect consistency". Author Monte Wildhorn (Morgan Freeman) says it best if I were to refer it toward the apt direction of Rob Reiner, in this lyrical and poetic spin on this movie.
Rob Reiner weaves a story throughout a story, while Freeman and Virginia Madsen (Charlotte O'Neil) dance triumphantly within it's web. The movie is candidly real, hopelessly romantic, and overwhelmingly personal. I laughed out loud and was just as moved to tears all through.
Just a simple plot, with a burnt-out, disgruntled author (alcohol swilling and unflinchingly sarcastic) and a struggling mother (positive and beautiful although lonely) next door. In this set up there is nothing new. There is although so much depth to the main characters, the people of the town riddled throughout and in Wildhorn's life.
It is in this that makes this particular movie so worth your time: The ride from point A to point B.
What first may appear to be predictable may not end in the way it will seem at the outset. This is a movie of the heart: one that has the power to tug tightly on those emotions of those who are prone to love these types of films.
Monte posesses the most foul attitude because of life's misdealt cards that he's holding. As he moves into a new town for the summer, he begins to meet people (usually on his terms) and slowly begins to see people for how they really are. He may be in a deep grip of emotional pain in the beginning of the movie, although so are so many others in their own lives.
Charlotte, living next to Monte, begins a guarded then easy friendship with him. Her three daughters are interacting with a first uncomfortable Monte soon after, as the author side of him begins to appeal to all of them in separate realms.
The dialogue in this interactive movie is stellar, quick-witted and lovely. Reiner uses visual stills that are able to pull as much emotion as any compelling conversation. Of this, I so enjoyed the careful framing of faces and objects as basic as Monte's typewriter.
I found also that the music in the movie is as inspiring as any of the delightful characters. Of definite noting is the Soundtrack scored by *Jeff Atmajain, with a featured solo piano by *Marc Shaiman. The high standard of their music is worth the while to listen to through the end credits.
This is story telling at it's pinnacle. You will laugh, cry, ebb and flow through this piece of cinematic Magic.
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