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An Unfinished Life

2005

Lasse Hallström

Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez, Morgan Freeman, Josh Lucas ...

6.0

7,442

Drama In order to escape from the abusive boy-friend, Gary Winston, Jean Gilkyson moves with her young daughter Griff Gilkyson without previous notice to the ranch of her father-in-law Einar Gilkyson in Wyoming. Jean and Einar are disaffected, since he blames her for the death of his beloved son in a car accident. Einar is taking care of his friend Mitch Bradley, who was attacked and seriously wounded by a bear, and he does not know that he ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Leslie Felperin Variety	"A film is in trouble when, despite the presence of an A-list cast and a well-regarded director, the best thing in it is a bear"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[It] is modest and heartfelt, dealing directly with straightforward material (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"It’s not just that Jennifer Lopez looks lost and out of her league acting with Robert Redford and Morgan Freeman. That’s to be expected. It’s the drag-ass solemnity of this turgid family drama that makes you crazy (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Paul Clinton CNN	"Slowly paced with an extremely predictable ending, the film has its faults. But if you allow yourself to be lured in, the movie still manages to be both moving and poignant"	NEU
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"[A] solemn, sentimental bore of a movie that suffocates in its own predictability and watered-down psychobabble"	NEG
United Kingdom	Xan Brooks The Guardian	"There's something strangely poignant about watching Robert Redford trying to be Clint Eastwood (...) [A] creaky, amiable drama (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	"[It] is essentially a glossed-up TV movie"	NEU
United Kingdom	Allan Hunter Screendaily	"'An Unfinished Life' is the kind of film where you can predict everything that will happen within moments of the story starting to unfold"	NEG

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