All are good: you sure?

All are good is an intimate story I guess is intended to reflect the breakup of the family in American society today.

The story is about Frank Goode, played by a very sober Robert de Niro, who is very good, a recently retired widower, and his relationship with his three grown children, each with their own lives.

Frank has worked very hard, in a totally boring, and that has left as sequelae of chronic disease with PVC-coated electrical wires and telephone, to give a better future for their four children, and that they succeed in life (topic of the American dream).

After his wife died, which is what has always had more to do with their children, these will cost you to visit. The beginning of the film shows us, excited, doing all the shopping and preparations for a visit of these, which ultimately does not occur.

This takes you to make the decision to go to visit them, each in his respective city. In addition, because of his illness, can not fly, so it has to cross the country, and this is rare in the USA-based films of trains and buses, so you can see miles and miles of cables that made ​​in his life, in a rather metaphorical.

Your first stop is New York, home to one of his sons, who is a painter, but you will not find. This does not stop, and then going to Chicago, where one of his daughters, an advertising executive played by Kate Beckinsale, far removed from his younger days in Pearl Harbor, and where it seems that almost is cast. From here we begin to discover that, perhaps, the brothers are more connected than it looks, and to hide something the father.

Chicago goes to Denver to see another son, who believe successful composer, but who is in a much less glamorous role. However, it is happy and quickly sends it to the younger brother, Drew Barrymore, who is a dancer in a show in Las Vegas.

During the latter route will suffer a setback with his medication that you will have to hurry back home by plane. From here no more story, otherwise you run the risk of going into spoilers to be charged to the end of the film.

The film is raised in an intimate tone and sober, to do a bit slow. De Niro is very content, more than in comedies like "Meet the Parents, or him", he has played lately. Their role is reminiscent of Nicholson in "About Scmidt" a few years ago, ie that of Boomers at the end of a long working life, prematurely widowed and are disconnected from everything, especially the family, had gone into labor . I guess I try to be a metaphor for the American reality of that generation, the born just after World War II, now reaching retirement. It also serves, as I said, to reflect the efforts of those parents to make a better life for these children, who are now between 35 and 45.

Interestingly, in the film the highest expectations for children are by De Niro, for which, once discovered the reality seems to be a little disappointed with some of the children, against the opinion of those, who are happy having achieved less success than his father expected. In contrast, the most successful daughter, professionally impressive, such as your house is what appears to be less happy.

Also, I guess that serves to reflect family breakdown that exists in that society, with a huge country in which a brother may live in New York, one in Chicago, another in Las Vegas, distances, facilitating / impossible isolation, and therefore the breakdown of "family values".

In this, the reality is well reflected. Ultimately, the film is a comedy, of course, but it is not too dramatic, despite the end, pretty consistent, and relatively "happy"

It's a solid film with good performances and a script right. Probably neither excited nor disappointed.

Rating: 6.5