I love movies with a message and this movie had a great one!!!! I loved the progression of the characters and how they all have problems but getting involved with the house project and George they just all seem to find a way to make things better for themselves and those around them. They are helping each other in ways that until the end they don't even realize. The ending was a wonderful surprise... read more
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
"A wonderful movie about a man that decides to use his last few months building a house after he finds out he has terminal cancer on the same day that he gets fired after 20 years on the job.
Kevin Kline does a very nice job playing the lead character who tries to use this time to connect with his 16/17 year old son. Hayden Christensen plays the son and is portrayed as your average drug abusing, parent hating, heavy metal loving teenager with multiple piercings to his ears and face as well as he"
iknowthat added this to a list 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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Starring: Hayden Christensen, Kevin Kline
and Kristin Scott Thomas
"If you were a house, this is where you would want to be built. On rock, facing the sea, listening."Will I see the sequel? (if existed)
Well, his father died at the end, so there's no point in making a sequel of course .. But I loved the movie, a lot!"
"Kevin Kline plays a man who has spent the past ten years divorced and alone, living in his father's lone inheritance to him - a rundown shack - on the southern California coast. On the same day that he is fired from his job at an architectural firm, a job he has had for the past twenty years and hates, he finds out that he has an advanced case of terminal cancer.
He chooses not to tell his family or friends and spends his last days building a house that he can call his own and reconnecting wit"
jaytoast added this to a list 5 months, 3 weeks ago
"Watched 12/27/11
I was expecting an average "life crisis" drama, and that's pretty much what I got. However, the memorable quotes and believable performances from the actors somehow made me care, and this movie is all the better for having these elements."