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Rudderless

(2014) - 105 min - R

Sam, a divorced father, tries to cope with the death of his teenage son during a campus shooting.
Actors
Billy Crudup, Laurence Fishburne, Anton Yelchin, Felicity Huffman, William H Macy
Genre
Drama, Musical

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While parts of this movie are powerful, and the modernist folk music interesting, I did not love this movie. My seat mates, however, did like it on many levels. There were a fairly big reveal late in the movie which helps explain the downward spiral of the Josh's Father, Sam. Sam had been a rising ad executive in Oklahoma, but ends up as a house painter living on a boat. One day he listens to some recordings his ex-wife has dropped off which were made by Josh before his death. He eventually decides to perform one at a local stand up bar and is approached by Quentin a young man who has had a tough life but hears beauty in the songs and wants to perform with Sam. William H Macy is the writer and director and appears as the bar owner. He cast his wife, Felicity Huffman, as Josh's mother who has just had another baby with her current husband. At 52, it is just hard for her to be believable although she is quite a good actress.

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