GetPapa Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

kimfinley I was delighted by this movie and recommend it very highly - it is funny, charming, clever and disarming - I rented it as part of my Vincent- D'Onofrio-film-series (I'm-a-stay-at-home-mom-during-the-day-isn't-he-a- clever-and-yet-also-super-sexy-he-man) and found it surprisingly funny and touching. Each of the performances was worth viewing (although most were really lovely and brilliant and touching) and the story was unexpectedly resonant. Woof.I love movies with odd characters that are so quirky they could only be real and I love seeing big-money actors (Kudrow, D'Onofrio, Azario) in well crafted smaller films that are very well made. Most days I feel like barking all the time too. I'd love to know where I could buy a copy - I know so many of my chick pals would enjoy it - and us fans of VDO get a very satisfying slab of this very gifted and clever actor's work. Woof, woof. Arf.

paul-1122 Don't be mislead by the trailer. Sure, the film is chock full of really funny bits, but they serve to offer comic relief to a truly poignant story of a woman with a terrible mental disorder, her husband who is at the end of his tether, a statement on the treatment of mental disorders by "let's just make her a vegetable", a vet who doesn't really know where her heart is going and finds herself falling in love with the husband who comes to her for advice, a resident shrink who would rather be practicing his harp than medicine and gets himself fired for practicing psychiatry in a broom closet and on house-calls for cash, and a buddy who boasts of being fired from a job about every six weeks because he feels oppressed by "the man." Good character development. The plot has good resolution. A mix of angst, laughter, and warm fuzzies. Memorable line: The buddy tells the resident, "Stick with the harp. You can't get fired from playing the harp." Good film.

diagrace-1 If you choose the movie Bark based on the trailer or the video/DVD box cover, you are probably going to be disappointed. The movie is only a comedy in the most traditional sense of the word: for instance, it concludes with a beautiful celebration where all the characters are gathered together. It is not a comedy of crass jokes or goofy gags. And is it a romance movie? Again, hardly in the way the promoters advertise it to be. Bark is, however, a loving look at the tragi-comedy of the human condition. Obviously, I liked this movie very much. It moved along well yet had many "timeless" moments. It did not make a big deal of itself. It depicted its characters and their troubles with warmth and kindness, yet was not sappy. I am thankful to those who created this movie, for their intelligence and tenderness toward the whole situation of mental illness. Anyone who has known someone who has "lost it" -- and really that must be all of us by now -- will appreciate this movie for its story. As for the tone, I would say that it has more in common with something like Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors -- another "romantic comedy" which was much more than that phrase generally seems to mean nowadays.

tricodesign I have seen this film in France at the Bordeaux Film Festival, where the lead actor Lee Tergesen won The Male Lead price. It is a very touching and funny story, with real and deep characters. A very original plot, which might be silly but which is actually about real life and real problems that people are facing when confronted to a hard situation such as mental illness. And even though the subject matter is on the darker side, the film has a lot of funny and absurd situations. GREAT ACTORS. Great story telling. GREAT FUN.You have to see this film somehow!