Everybody's fine (2009)

Everybody's fine (2009)

Cast: Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell

Frank Goode (Robert De Niro) is a widower planning a reunion with his children, buying and preparing things at home. While he is doing so, they call him saying sorry that they have to cancel it. However, Frank thinks of an alternative way and makes up his mind to give them a surprise visit if they cannot manage coming back to him. Even though his doctor suggested to stay home, he begins his trip.

The trip starts and he first goes to David(Austin Lynsy)'s apartment. Though there is no response from David's room. Then he visits Amy (Kate Beckinsale) and sees his daughter is making up some excuses not to be together. So, he continues his trip to Robert (Sam Rockwell). And he finds out Robert is a percussionist instead of his knowledge for him as a conductor of the orchestra. He also acts strange. Finally, on his way to Rosie (Drew Berrymore), he gets attacked by a man who tries to take his wallet. He gets his wallet back but that guy crushes his pills. And at Rosie's, he hears some calls about the apartment his daughter's living in. From there, he goes back home by a plane. Since he does not have his pills anymore and he is taking the flight, he has a heart attack during the flight. And there is this most interesting part of this movie. He is unconscious and has a dream about his children based on the facts he finds out during the trip. Later, he wakes up in the hospital, where his son and daughters are there. And they tell him David's problem there. The last thing is they are having Christmas dinner at Frank's home happily.

This movie is not a bad one. It is interesting in the first hour why they are trying to run away from him. The only thing that made me have doubt is, how could they tell Frank that David's as they know he just wakes up from heart attack? Should not they tell him a later time about the death while saying he is missing somewhere at that moment? Or saying they lose contact with him would make him more worried? Like they accept this concept, when a person dies, nothing bad can happen anymore. But that person is missing somewhere, that is a real threatening case. Well, just my 2 cents.