Don and Ellie have three children, lawyer daughter Lyla, doctor son Jared, and adopted son Alejandro. They have been divorced for 10 years, and Don and Bebe (once Ellie's best friend) are hosting Alejandro's wedding to Missy. Alejandro, still in contact with the mother in Colombia who voluntarily gave him up for adoption so that he would have a better life, tells his (three) parents that his mother, who is coming to the wedding, is a staunch Catholic who will be desperately distressed if she knows he has been brought up in a household where the sin of divorce underpins everything, so can Don and Ellie please pretend they are still married?
This is the main premise of an ensemble film which is based on a French original. It boasts a stellar cast, and I'm going to buck the trend by saying that I liked it quite a lot. It follows the modern trend of a tendency towards sexual explicitness and bad language in the dialogue (the film opens with a squirm-worthy sequence involving Robert DeNiro and Susan Sarandon being interrupted during oral sex), but I enjoyed the various subplots and I liked most of the characters - they were quite good company.
Robert DeNiro as Don does tend to coast a little, but Susan Sarandon in particular is very sympathetic, and I enjoyed all the performances - Topher Grace has a nice line in gentle sarcasm, and I have - as I have a tendency to do - fallen completely in lust with Ana Ayora who plays the sister nobody knew Alejando had, and who presents a very compelling argument in favour of skinny-dipping.
This is not a great film by any means, but it is gently enjoyable, and far from being as bad as it is made out to be.
This is the main premise of an ensemble film which is based on a French original. It boasts a stellar cast, and I'm going to buck the trend by saying that I liked it quite a lot. It follows the modern trend of a tendency towards sexual explicitness and bad language in the dialogue (the film opens with a squirm-worthy sequence involving Robert DeNiro and Susan Sarandon being interrupted during oral sex), but I enjoyed the various subplots and I liked most of the characters - they were quite good company.
Robert DeNiro as Don does tend to coast a little, but Susan Sarandon in particular is very sympathetic, and I enjoyed all the performances - Topher Grace has a nice line in gentle sarcasm, and I have - as I have a tendency to do - fallen completely in lust with Ana Ayora who plays the sister nobody knew Alejando had, and who presents a very compelling argument in favour of skinny-dipping.
This is not a great film by any means, but it is gently enjoyable, and far from being as bad as it is made out to be.