ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

BasicLogic Gee, this 1990 movie is now viewed in February 2018, time really really flies, dude. Look at the cast who were in 1990, Jesus, all of them looked so young and so beautiful: James Spader, Wow, what a handsome dude! But now in "The Blacklist", now quite so. Jason Alexander, he still got full thick hair in 1990 (or he's already wearing wig, because in "Seinfeld" he was already as bald as a bald eagle!) Kathy Bates, still such a beautiful, attractive even sexy woman. Susan Sarandon, my my, she might be the only person who didn't change too much, because she still looked pretty sexy in "Ray Donovan (2017)". What an evergreen woman she is!The Nora Baker role she played lived in a dump, a typical slob who lost the will and interest to live well. I just wonder why I didn't see cockroaches in that house. Why I didn't see cockroaches crawling on Max Baron's drunken body..."When is the last you had a date?" "What if I told you I wasn't interested in getting laid right now?" "Interest in getting laid is the human condition. For Christ's sake, Max. It's all around you..."Then, INSHALLA, he just got laid that night! Good for him!

SnoopyStyle Max Baron (James Spader) is a successful ad executive in St. Louis. His wife Janey (Maria Pitillo) was killed in a car accident two years ago. He buys 50 burgers from White Palace (White Castle refused to give permission) for his friend Neil (Jason Alexander)'s bachelor party and discovers six empty boxes. He berates Nora Baker (Susan Sarandon) and gets his refund. Later at a bar, Max finds common suffering with Nora who lost her son to leukemia. They start an affair based on their shared losses despite their differences.These are two good performances from great actors of interesting damaged people. The bulk of the interest probably comes from the age difference. For me, more of the interest comes from these sad lives. I would have liked a bit more Sarandon. The hardness of their chemistry is terrific.

vincentlynch-moonoi It's often 3 things that make a movie: a story, interesting characters, and competent actors. One out of three ain't bad. Well, actually, one out of three is bad.The one thing this movie has going for it is good acting. James Spader has always been a competent actor, and as he has matured his acting has improved to the extent that he is one of the best on the small screen. Personally, I've never cared much for Susan Sarandon, but that's not to say I don't think she's a talented actress. She is. I just don't often like the films she appears in. She does nicely here. There are some good performances (though not much screen time) by supporting actors -- Jason Alexander, Kathy Bates, and Eileen Brennan (perhaps the best characterization in the film). Most of the rest of the actors here play rather stereotypical Jewish people...like Jewish people are portrayed in almost every other film; not very imaginative.The main characters here? Well, for me, relatively unlikable. People I would have no desire to associate with. So, where is the connection.The story. Not really anything unique at all. Boy meets girl from different class and different age. Will their relationship survive? Ever heard that one before? Sorry, but the good acting wasn't enough to "save" this movie for me.

willmurphy6663 i read the reviews of loved and hated this film, and as you can guess i am on of the ones that have loved it. I can understand that people find the story implausible, because of the age difference and the social and cultural differences of the love story. i suppose having been in a few love across the divide love stories myself i identify and understand the motivations of the two characters and what the director is trying to say. Both James Spader and Susan Sarrandon are lost in the film, James had lost his lover and all meaning in his life, and Susan has lost her son, and her self respect and is being self destructive to herself. She has a truth which she teaches him on their first meeting, where she accurately reads him, and shows him how to let go and have a good time and have contact. The original sex scene which some people hate in the reviews is my all time favourite. If the sexes were reversed it would verge on rape, but because it is female on male it doesn't feel that way. the way she holds him down catches him unawares and drags him into this sexual and emotional awakening is what makes it so electrifying for me. James spader's night after rejection of her rings true, and for most people it would end there....but he goes on and they really learn off each other...maybe as i have found in real life it would end, but i think that love is about two people coming together having contact being together loving and learning from each other.So may people that i see staying together in so called sensible compatible marriages don't have what you see these two having together for however long.......