Ehirerapp Waste of time

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

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Dunham16 One of my favorite movies about a woman no longer married who ups stakes to unexpectedly move in with well meaning,overbearing mom who inadvertently smothers her until a local fella she would never have given a second look at when she was younger melts her heart and awakens her is HOPE FLOATS. This movie is yet another rehash of he same premise with the great Blythe Danner taking the mom role played by the great Gena Rowlands in HOPE FLOATS, a moving, enticing, thrilling performance by both. I am not sure the fine performances of the heroine initially depressed woman and the soon to be object of her affection in any way measure up to the incredible, heartwarming thrilling performances early given in HOPE FLOATS given by the great Sandra Bullock and the great Harry Connick, Jr. All in all a well photographed, well edited, well dialogued umpteenth rehash of, in some ways perhaps even parts of Bette Davis' 1940's megahit, DARK VICTORY. An enjoyable example of its genre without being one of the best of what is still available today on home listening through DVD.

mtta1 Involving depression and divorce and coming-of-age and older-younger romance - all subjects which have been overplayed in lesser films - there was such a risk that this film descend into cliché and slapstick. Yet the acting and direction were full of restraint and composure, which makes the characters believable and the dramatic side of the film meaningful. The main performance is understated and very funny if you are able to think and relate. To have a performance work across such a wide range is an achievement with a high degree of difficulty.It was interesting to see the main character work through her relationship with her parents, and therein lies the heart of the film and its originality. The dry humor is great and the story is wonderful.

dalydj-918-255175 "Melanie Lynsky leads a great ensemble of actors giving great performances making the film more compelling even with some faults throughout the film" Stories about olden women falling in love have been told on screen and off screen for so long now that these types of women have a word associated with this type of behaviour however unlike those type of women our main female in this film is different then most of those so called "Cougars". Amy (Melanie Lynsky) is just recently a divorcée who has moved back in with her parents Ruth (Blythe Danner) and Stan (John Rubinstein) Minsky. After many moths of depression Amy after meeting Jeremy (Christopher Abbott) she starts a sexual relationship with him that close people around her start to notice her depression disappearing as her secret relationship with Jeremy blossoms.As I mentioned above stories like the one this film tells have been written so many times they get to repetitive however there is a difference which is that the main character of Amy is very depressed and sad unlike other women who are trying to act younger. The writing of the film flows well through scenes but some lines and scenes written bring the story to a stop as you question the believability of the actions of some of the characters. For example Ruth who seems more critical of her daughter instantly forgives Amy which does not seem realistic to how the character is written. The pace of the film does start slow but once Jeremy comes on screen the story moves quickly which is what you would want to happen.Melanie Lynsky playing Amy is obviously the standout of the film because it is all about her. Her performance is both comedic and dramatic and she plays all those parts of the character very well especially in a scene she shares with Blythe Danner as the two fight because both get to stretch their dramatic skills playing off each other very well. Blythe Danner plays Amy's mother Ruth and while she starts off as a typical mother character Danner just plays the her so well. She may be on screen less then Lynsky but she plays her scenes so well especially when the cracks are visible in Danner's voice which is just her talent she has build up over the years. There are also fine performances from Julie White, Christopher Abbott and John Rubinstein but these three are not given much to do other then say the words.The film is a fine dramatic romantic comedy with typical scenes of love but with a different lead character the film becomes more relate able especially in how the lead character is written. Strong ensemble work from almost everyone playing well off of each other.MOVIE GRADE: C+ (MVP: Melanie Lynsky)

James D Hello I Must Be Going is not a glamorous Hollywood film. Not that I don't enjoy the big budget blockbusters every once in a while, but this film was a refreshing departure. There are no flashy cuts or fast-paced action sequences, because it is attempting to tell a far more intimate story. The film is not rushing you along with plot. When the characters talk, they are talking about their inner most fears and desires.The subject of the film, whose life we are let into, is Amy Minksy. A character, who if we met in real life, we would want to walk up to her and just give her a hug. When we first meet Amy, we find out that she is a woman in her mid-thirties, has just been divorced, and is living with her parents at home again. To call her depressed would be wrong, she seems more to me like a person who is stuck, not knowing what direction to go in for the rest of her life. She is slightly assisted in finding her way through the newfound love/lust she gets from 19-year-old Jeremy. An actor, who hates acting on stage, but likes to pretend he is gay in his real world life. They are the perfect couple for each other, and yet the worst, because at any minute the families could find out about their affair, and cause much embarrassment for the two families and trouble in a certain business venture.This film shows us Amy's life, in all of her moments of loneliness, happiness, embarrassment, lust, and so on. And the great thing about the film is it doesn't try to sugar coat anything. The movie feels more real than most I've seen. All the characters that surround Amy have hopes and dreams. You get the impression that everyone has some sort of secret, the audience is just only aware of Amy's. And the most interesting and successful sequences of the film are when those desires are exposed, causing conflicts for the other characters, as it would in real life. All of the actors do a fantastic job of making their characters feel real. And I can't imagine it to have been too difficult for the actors, since the screenwriter seems to know every detail of every character's personal life story, without abruptly stating it in dialog. The script is brilliantly subtle in that way.I think that some people might have a hard time sitting through Hello I Must Be Going, because it is in a lot of ways very different from the usual. The story is told to the audience in quiet conversation. And sometimes, the film can feel repetitive and claustrophobic. There are multiple scenes when Amy and Jeremy go off to have their affair in a different place than before. Although we do learn new information about them in every scene, they still seem to be stuck doing the same things over and over again, in different positions and different places, but really the same thing. Also the movie is told through Amy's eyes, so we only see the things she sees and does, so mainly Jeremy. Amy is unemployed and Jeremy is just a kid, so both individuals don't do much. While I understand the movie is about Amy and should be mostly from her point of view, I wish the film opened up a bit more and explored some of the other characters in their own world. In one particular scene, we learn about Amy's mother Ruth, who is played by the wonderful Blythe Danner. Through most of the film, Amy and Ruth are at each other's throats. But there is a moment they have of understanding one another near the end of the film, which was my favorite scene of the movie, particularly because Blythe Danner and Melanie Lynskey are so fantastic in the scene, and I must say in the entire film.The ending felt a little sudden. Characters continuously ask Amy throughout the film what she wants to do with her life, but she never has an answer. And by the end, she still doesn't have an answer. But she seems okay with that. We don't get the perfect happy ending for Amy, but we get the sense that she is happy. Perhaps that is the point the film is trying to make, sometimes you just don't know what you want to do in life. Maybe the point of the film is it doesn't matter what you do as long as your happy, which Amy seemed to be for a brief moment with Jeremy. Still her plan for what she wants to do by the end of the film doesn't seem like much of an improvement over her plan at the beginning of wearing the same shirt and watching the Marx Brothers everyday. The entire film, we watch Amy through all of her misery, it would have been nice to give her that moment of: "she's going to be all right." Well, she seems perfectly content. So let's just hope she can figure it out.