Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

ScoobyMint Disappointment for a huge fan!

Whitech It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Kirpianuscus maybe, a useful film. for the moments of crisis, sadness, lost of hope. a film about the trust. and about the magic of love. and about the joy and hope and the second chance. nothing surprising. nothing unknown. except, maybe, the convincing side. the work, admirable, no doubt, of Morgan Freeman. and the lovely science of detail. short, a film who must see. for the remind of a special state of soul. and for admire. the pure beauty of life.

edwagreen Most of the picture appears to be a revisiting of Peyton Place where Greg Kinnear is totally lost in the world of love. He loses his first wife quickly to a lesbian relationship, rushes into a 2nd marriage where the woman has had a relationship with the man she sold a house to several years back. It is only when he cuts his finger to experience pain that he finds the true meaning of love with the emergency room doctor. It almost sounds comical but it is only that the unfortunate idea of tragedy saves this movie from being a disaster.Morgan Freeman and Jane Alexander play an inter-racially married couple whose doctor son has recently died of an overdose. Alexander has had experience with inter-racial roles having starred in the 1970 hit "The Great White Hope."As if this isn't enough, a young couple struggle to find love and the woman finds out from a seer that her young boyfriend has but a short time to live. He has come from a dysfunctional home where the mother left long ago. When tragedy intervenes, our pregnant widow is given the opportunity to go live with Freeman and Stevenson, both of whom wish to rebuild their shattered lives.While depressing, the film does emphasize the continuity of life. It is the ultimate redemption of shattered lives picking up the pieces.

j-lacerra This compelling little movie delivers plenty of character involvement. These are people in or near love. Love is not always good to them. The stories are told in a number of plot tracks that interweave and eventually intersect. One of the two main characters, Bradley (Kinnear), is a kind and open sort who has no luck at love. His first wife leaves him for a woman, and his second leaves him for her previous lover, now suddenly free. The other main character,Harry (Freeman) is nursing his grief over his own tragic loss of an only son.Another track follows the young couple, Oscar and Chloe (Toby Hemingway and the stunning Alexa Davalos), who marry and are happy until tragedy strikes them as well. There is a lot of tragedy in this movie.The picture is shot, paced, and acted excellently, as directed by old pro Robert Benton. It plays out like an intelligent soap, with scenes cutting between the various couples. It is the kind of movie where you do not want it to end because Benton has made these people friends, who you care about.Good script, with very few holes. The most glaring is the start of a new romance for Bradley with the doctor in the ER after he intentionally almost severs his finger. I think the last thing ER docs do is get personally involved with patients. And the absolute last thing they do is get involved with a patient who has purposely injured himself. My only other almost-gripe is that it seems that Morgan Freeman cannot be in a movie without narrating it. A non-gripe is that there is also some relatively frequent nudity, much of which seems gratuitous. I tolerated it.These minor gripes aside, rent it and enjoy it. It is not really a chick-flick, so enjoy it with someone you care about.

Sachin Kumar I happen to watch the movie lately .. and loved it. Yes .. its a bit predictable , but is a very simply put pleasant movie. I would rate it 10 for a DVD rent. Worth spending 2 hours at home , with your loved ones. Morgan Freeman is definitely the high point. Its funny, tense, sad ,complex and is definitely about LOVE. The acting is superb and subtle. Alexa Davalos looks really beautiful in this movie (i had seen her in defiance earlier). I could not much weak links in the entire movie .. yes there are a few nude scenes (slightly explicit) , but they don't stand out since they form an integral part of the story. One of the few movies which i did not want to end.