Movie #1525 ........................."DriverX"

Movie #1525 "DriverX" was the second movie we saw last Thursday at the film festival, and it was very well done........until the end, which I didn't like as much as the rest of the film.  The husband and Wife here are very good actors, and they have chemistry in working together.  The film rests on the shoulders, though, of the Uber-like customers that go in and out of this driver's car (which happens to be a prius).  I saw a movie like this , full of customers of a taxi, but this one goes much deeper in the main characters and their marriage to each other.  They  desperately need money to pay their real estate taxes in a month, so he is forced to use his car and drive around and pick up as many customers as he can in the few hours he has at night (he needs to be wide eyed to prep breakfast for his wife and two kids early each morning ---- cleans the house, cuts the lawn and does the laundry, and has picked up cleaning the pool, too, since they had to lay off the pool boy) and prep dinner every night, too.  We thought the film would get to a better, clearer ending, but unfortunately, the ending wasn't as satisfying as we would have wanted it to be.  That's why I'd give this 3.8 out of 5  stars.  For a long time it was going 5 stars out of 5, but it started to falter at the end.  In fact, the woman sitting next to me just got up and left when it started to shift gears at the end.  Too bad.  Good movie until then.

DriverX (2017)

1h 38min | Drama | 11 October 2017 (USA)

Skidding into middle-age, a stay-at-home dad must drive for an Uber-like rideshare company (DriverX) to help support his working wife and two young daughters. But low pay and wild LA nights put an even greater strain on his marriage.

Director:

 Henry Barrial

Writer:

 Henry Barrial

Stars:

 Patrick Fabian,  Tanya Clarke,  Desmin Borges