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Being Flynn

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Being Flynn

Robert De Niro, Paul Dano, Julianne Moore, Lili Taylor, Olivia Thirlby

Writer-director Paul Weitz turns his hand to this moving portrait of fathers and sons. Based on a true story, Being Flynn follows Nick Flynn (Paul Dano) who is shocked to have his eccentric and long-a... read more read more...bsent father, Jonathan (Robert De Niro) reach out to him unexpectedly. Still feeling the loss of his mother (played in flashbacks by Julianne Moore) in the midst of starting a new relationship with Denise (Olivia Thirlby), the last person Nick wants to see is his father. But you can't outrun fate and slowly Nick comes to realize he has been given the chance to make a real future not only for himself, but for his struggling father too. -- (C) Focus

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  • fb576433743
    April 1, 2012
    fb576433743
    Seems a tad pointless at times, but still a very watchable and quite interesting look at a difficult father-son relationship. There's no false sentimentalism here; Nick and Jonathan seem to have genuine problems liking each other at times, which offers a rather refreshing change ... read moreand keeps this from meandering into typical schmaltzy family drama territory. Although we're left without a sense of having reached any particular destination and with a nagging suspicion that some baggage has been left unclaimed along the way, it's still a rather affecting film with an unsurprisingly solid performance by Robert DeNiro, who seems to be having rather a good time playing a largely unsympathetic crank.
  • casillase1
    May 12, 2012
    casillase1
    A writer dealing addiction meets his estranged, drunken and delusional father at the homeless shelter he volunteers for.That's the premise of Being Flynn, an uneven but emotionally hard hitting film from writer-director Paul Weitz.

    Taken from Nick Flynn's 2004 memoir Another Bul... read morelshit Night In Suck City, Being Flynn is saturated in deep sadness. The excellent Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine, There Will Be Blood) is Nick, a struggling writer, poet and playwright drifting through his twenties and then takes a job working at a New York City shelter where his girlfriend, Denise, works (lovely Olivia Thirlby). When he sees his father, Jonathan (Robert De Niro) he's floored. Jonathan too is a writer, one who thinks he's on the same level as Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger and talks constantly of his opus Memoirs of a Moron, and also reveals truths about Nick's childhood and his mother (Julianne Moore) who has her own troubles.

    The film plays as an emotional face off between the father and son, with narration provided by Nick who hopes to better understand his troubled father. Dano displays amazing subtlety and nuance, a perfect foil to De Niro's often flamboyant performance. Weitz first directed De Niro in Little Fockers, but here he employs the actor's too often forgotten skills, one that recalls his emotionally charged performance in Awakenings. It's a marvelous performance from an old master.
  • fb1112584705
    April 19, 2012
    fb1112584705
    De Niro knocks it out the part with this one, his acting chops back to their old, youthful form! Dano really shows some range here and carries the film with relative ease. My movie of the year so far. Get to CAMELVIEW to check this out!
  • xbza006
    March 28, 2012
    xbza006
    Jonathan (De Niro), whom plays an ill writer, along with Nick Flynn (Dano, his son), attempt to understand each other flaws. Overall......an AWESOME FILM!
  • fb712625704
    February 27, 2012
    fb712625704
    In which Robert De Niro plays a crazy racist violent taxi driver. An adaptation that doesn't really have any reason to exist as a film.
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