Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Leave the world behind’s dissonant plot teases that this movie will be greater than the sums of its parts. However, in the end the story is as predictable and simplistically enjoyable as an episode of Friends.
The movie is redeemed by a solid set of performances by a stacked cast. Particularly, the choice to cast Julia Roberts as a prickly and confrontational mom was an inspired and fantastic one.
Wes proved the haters wrong who said that he can only make movies about broken fathers and outcast sons in candy coated dioramas, by making a movie set within a tv show about a play about a broken father and outcast son in a candy coated diorama.