A nice little movie. Nothing really heavy here, or particularly hilarious, either. If watching people make stupid choices in their lives bothers you, this might be a tough movie to endure. But in the end, father and daughter each manage to stop doing something stupid in their lives.
I couldn’t help but note the different kind of character that Amy Adams plays from when I first noticed her in “Julie & Julia“. On the other hand, the Alan Arkin character seems so similar to the character he played in “Glengarry Glen Ross” (which is a great movie). Makes me wonder about other characters I’ve seen him do that I can’t quite remember, but may have that same sort of hustle-to-make-a-buck but not too bright aspect.
What’s really fun to watch is the DVD extra of the interview with the 2 women who actually own and run a biohazard & crime scene cleanup business. They observed a few of the un-real things in the movie that I did – such as – if you find parts of bodies on the job, you dont’ just toss ’em in the garbage with all the other stuff, you leave them right where they are and call the authorities and let them know they need to come back and finish their work. And the movie doesn’t really capture the gooey messiness of objects that have been soaking in bodily fluids for a while. Particularly floors. You don’t just give the kitchen floor a thorough mopping or give the carpet a really good shapooing – you have to rip up subflooring to remove blood, etc, that’s soaked in.
Yeah, the movie can be sort of grisly, but nothing over the top.