Movie #1078 "Elsa and Fred" was good, and I would recommend it, esp. to the 65 year and older crowd. There are some good younger actors in here, such as Marcia Gay Harden, Chris Noth and Scott Bakula, but they have small parts as the kids of Shirley Maclaine (who is in her 70s) and Christopher Plummer (well into his 80s) and only support these two excellent actors. Okay, so why didn't it quite click to me in authenticity? I had problems with buying Ms Maclaine's character. Yes, she had the toughest character, probably, in the movie to get across, but I felt she was putting it on. I think she's whimsical and kind of goofy of a person but in her own way and the script forced her to be goofy in a prescribed way ----not sure that makes sense, but I felt she was going through the lines and not liking the character too much. Maybe that's just me, but that's what I felt. So when we get to the high point (which takes place in beautiful Rome) I felt little emotion there, at least for her. Christopher Plummer is amazing! even with the bad overacting his son-in-law (Chris Noth) was doing ! I just discovered when I looked it up that there is an original Spanish version of this film that I want to see to observe the comparisons to this one.
Elsa & Fred
2014Rated PG-1397 mins I'd give this 3.8 out of 5 stars.
ELSA AND FRED is the story of two people who, at the end of the road, discover that it's never too late to love. After losing his wife, Fred (Christopher Plummer) feels disturbed, confused and alone, so his daughter (Marcia Gay Harden) helps move him into a small apartment where he meets Elsa (Shirley Maclaine). From that moment on, everything changes.
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