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Oscar-winners Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton lead this breezy tale as an elderly married couple who plan to sell their New York apartment – the one they’ve lived in for over 40 years. But when personal conflicts mix with tricky real-estate matters, the pair become divided about what they really want.
- Director:
- Richard Loncraine ('Firewall', 'Wimbledon')
- Writer:
- Charlie Peters
- Cast:
- Morgan FreemanDiane KeatonCarrie PrestonClaire van der BoomCynthia Nixon
Reviews & comments
Flicks, Adam Fresco
flicksStruggling artist Alex (Morgan Freeman) and retired teacher, Ruth (Diane Keaton) have been living in the same New York apartment, happily married, for over forty years. But now, their old bones too frail to cope with five flights of stairs, they’re selling up. Cue a disproportionately large amount of screen time given over to real estate offers and counter-offers. That’s pretty much it plot-wise. Except for Dorothy, their cute old dog, whose ailing health leads to an expensive veterinary visit. Oh, and a satirical background breaking news story, involving the media getting, in Alex’s words, “worked up over nothing”, and driving down Brooklyn property prices with their terrorist scaremongering.
Variety
pressKeaton and Freeman make for a pleasant couple in Richard Loncraine's conflict-free virgin-cocktail of a movie.
Time Out
pressIf you're looking for a film completely free of loud explosions, raised voices or anything actually happening, you can't go wrong with this fusty New York fairytale.
The New York Times
pressThe lead performances are so perfectly in sync that Alex and Ruth really feel like an old married couple who know each other's foibles and cherish every tic.
The Dissolve
pressThe movie stays afloat with its sneaky perceptiveness, dealing in how real estate's grand mysteries alter the lives of those trying to navigate it.
Los Angeles Times
pressWhat a pleasure to see a simple, finely tuned dramedy about real adults with real emotions in a real-life situation.
Hollywood Reporter
pressGood casting gives this amiable work curb appeal, but the script is a bit of fixer-upper.
Flicks, Adam Fresco
flicksStruggling artist Alex (Morgan Freeman) and retired teacher, Ruth (Diane Keaton) have been living in the same New York apartment, happily married, for over forty years. But now, their old bones too frail to cope with five flights of stairs, they’re selling up. Cue a disproportionately large amount of screen time given over to real estate offers and counter-offers. That’s pretty much it plot-wise. Except for Dorothy, their cute old dog, whose ailing health leads to an expensive veterinary visit. Oh, and a satirical background breaking news story, involving the media getting, in Alex’s words, “worked up over nothing”, and driving down Brooklyn property prices with their terrorist scaremongering.
Variety
pressKeaton and Freeman make for a pleasant couple in Richard Loncraine's conflict-free virgin-cocktail of a movie.
Time Out
pressIf you're looking for a film completely free of loud explosions, raised voices or anything actually happening, you can't go wrong with this fusty New York fairytale.
The New York Times
pressThe lead performances are so perfectly in sync that Alex and Ruth really feel like an old married couple who know each other's foibles and cherish every tic.
The Dissolve
pressThe movie stays afloat with its sneaky perceptiveness, dealing in how real estate's grand mysteries alter the lives of those trying to navigate it.
Los Angeles Times
pressWhat a pleasure to see a simple, finely tuned dramedy about real adults with real emotions in a real-life situation.
Hollywood Reporter
pressGood casting gives this amiable work curb appeal, but the script is a bit of fixer-upper.
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