Caught this on cable last night; I had never heard of it before but I always enjoy Nelson and Arquette, and I was pleased to discover a very charming, heart-felt little movie that develops in slow, subtle ways, without ever getting - you know the drill - heavy-handed or contrived.
I'm generally a sucker for movies that start with the characters being one way and having them, through the course of the story, evolve and find themselves, and in this movie, the journey of the two brothers rings poignantly true, and there's a wonderful plot device (having the excellent Emily Mortimer as a journalist doing a documentary on the subject of 'mail-order wives') which is exploited in the best possible and most creative ways.
I'm generally a sucker for movies that start with the characters being one way and having them, through the course of the story, evolve and find themselves, and in this movie, the journey of the two brothers rings poignantly true, and there's a wonderful plot device (having the excellent Emily Mortimer as a journalist doing a documentary on the subject of 'mail-order wives') which is exploited in the best possible and most creative ways.