This was harry Dean Stanton's last role, made when he was probably 90 in 2016. he died in 2017 at the ripe age of 91.
For me the interest in this movie is Stanton himself, not a lot happens in his sleepy desert town, except the tortoise named President Roosevelt that somehow slipped out of a neighbor's yard.
We see Lucky's daily routine, washing his face, doing a series of yoga exercises, walking into town for his breakfast. At one point he faints and falls, but in the doctor's office he is told everything looks normal. We now know he died a year or so later, it reminds me of the old man in "Groundhog Day", as the nurse says to Phil "People just get old and die."
When you read his biography it seems Stanton was pretty much playing himself, in the movie stating he was from Kentucky and describing his stint in the Navy, as a cook on the USS LST-970, a Landing Ship, Tank, during the Battle of Okinawa. In interviews we see he muses about the same things in this movie, the meaning of life, predestination, and what happens after we die.
I found it on Youtube free streaming movies, with the occasional interruption of a 6-second commercial, overall not bad at all. This is simply a character study, any viewer wanting more may be disappointed.
For me the interest in this movie is Stanton himself, not a lot happens in his sleepy desert town, except the tortoise named President Roosevelt that somehow slipped out of a neighbor's yard.
We see Lucky's daily routine, washing his face, doing a series of yoga exercises, walking into town for his breakfast. At one point he faints and falls, but in the doctor's office he is told everything looks normal. We now know he died a year or so later, it reminds me of the old man in "Groundhog Day", as the nurse says to Phil "People just get old and die."
When you read his biography it seems Stanton was pretty much playing himself, in the movie stating he was from Kentucky and describing his stint in the Navy, as a cook on the USS LST-970, a Landing Ship, Tank, during the Battle of Okinawa. In interviews we see he muses about the same things in this movie, the meaning of life, predestination, and what happens after we die.
I found it on Youtube free streaming movies, with the occasional interruption of a 6-second commercial, overall not bad at all. This is simply a character study, any viewer wanting more may be disappointed.