Movie #2132 "The Greatest" (netflix dvd) When this film first came out, I filed it in my mind that I wanted to see it, even if I knew it was all about grief, but I never got around to it until I rented it from netflix -- I wanted to see Pierce Brosnan and Susan Sarandon working together as husband and wife, and I found that his acting chops really carried the film. That's mostly because the grief over the death of their son hit them both so much but in different ways --- and her way was non-functional for a good portion of the film. His way encompassed a journey he had to go through to deal with his dead son's "girlfriend and about- to- be- mother of his grandchild" --- that was quite a bit to deal with during all the grief. The actors are all tremendous, and esp. Brosnan and the up and coming (at this time) Carey Mulligan. The film was slow at times, but a really thorough study of grief ---- Sarandon wasn't going to take this part because she had felt she had done this before (I remember her playing a grief-stricken mother of a daughter who was a homicide victim in "Moonlight Mile" in 2002 with another up and coming young actor Jake Gyllenhaal), but evidently Brosnan went to her personally and convinced her to be in it --- so glad he did, because it really is quite good. This director had done another movie I liked entitled "Boundaries" dealing with an ailing father who is about to die but on his last trip with his daughter and grandson. I give this one a 4 out of 5.
"THE GREATEST" 2009 1 hour and 39 mins rated R
A drama that is centered around a troubled teenage girl and a family that is trying to get over the loss of their son.
Director: Shana Feste
Writer: Shana Feste
Actors: Susan Sarandon, Pierce Brosnan, Carey Mulligan
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