Labor Day

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Cannon C @Abustar Jan 18 Great movie highly recommend it but they should have let the escaped tell his story to the women rather than show us flashbacks only but yeah this movie is nice See more thiago s @Thiagostone Aug 19 Filme ruim, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são ruins, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom See more David B @KingofBelAir Aug 10 How does this have such a low score, it was a really good movie. Well directed and great acting. See more Jacquelyn J @Jackie01 11/12/2024 Really enjoyable film... I was hooked from the start See more Jakob S @RT65914812 11/08/2024 A fierce-looking gentleman steals the hearts of a fatherless boy and his single mother. From that sentence alone, one can conclude that there may be something missing. And indeed, something was, in fact, missing. Considering the film was made eleven years ago, many elements of this story age poorly, including but not limited to the dependency the story has on the strength of masculinity. All the major beats of Labor Day are directly played by Frank (Josh Brolin), and repeatedly the audience is stuffed with the idea that true salvation will occur for Henry (Gattlin Griffiith) and Adele (Kate Winslet) only after a man saves them. In fact, there doesn’t even seem an established law that the savior must be Frank. Any man that will protect Adele’s shattered existence and teach Henry how to better play baseball can be this story’s hero. Honestly, the film suffers most from a flatness that has been associated with the archetypal damsel-in-distress narrative that we have all interacted with so many times before, but for Reitman’s version - we’ve added a son for the man to save as well. There wasn’t too much that Kate Winslet or Josh Brolin could change, considering how the film was written, but they both express a mutual pain that is the sole responsibility of any emotional depth found. Both actors try their best to ignite a sense of urgency at times of high stress, while they navigate stark, strange shifts into romantic, scenes of sentimentality. The clunkiness of Frank and Adele’s relationship set choppy waters for these two stars to stay afloat, but I really did appreciate their chemistry at intimate scenes of consolation. One of the strongest scenes in the entire film is when Adele attempts to drive to the pharmacy, and rather than Frank ignoring her distinct stress, he gives her the floor to tell her history about losing control of her body - and ultimately her life. All in all, this film proves that strong performances can’t save work that fails to… well, feel. I don’t believe that Henry’s life is saved by his interactions over one labor day weekend with a good guy, and I don’t appreciate the suggestion that Adele’s life is only worth her relationship with that same, good guy. See more Shay k @RT12093706 11/08/2024 Ok so obviously this movie is horrible it just gets 3 stars for being hilarious. Kate Winslet is a sex starved single mom who is taken hostage by a sexy prison escapee. He immediately starts doing dad stuff around the house. Manly stuff that Kate couldn't possibly accomplish with her delicate hands like fixing the deck and her car and teaching the kid how to throw a baseball. He shows her how to do several things from behind including batting a baseball and sensually mixing a peach pie. They bang and the kid listens and also gets horny?? The kid is having like sex dreams about other kids and is scared of it. It's all so weird and clearly the wet dream of a middle aged woman turned into a script See more Read all reviews

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