Genre: Comedy
Directed by: Sean Anders
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne, Isabela Moner
Time: 119 minutes
When Pete and Ellie Wagner, a
couple who make a living renovating and flipping houses, decide that it may be
time for them to start a family, the idea of adoption through foster care seems
to be the avenue to choose for them. They end up fostering three siblings,
Lizzy, Juan and Lita, the kids of a single mom who is a drug addict that was
sent to jail.
The subject of adoption is one
that hits close to home for the wife and myself, so we went to the movies last
weekend to see it. It does a good job of showing how difficult it can be to
care for foster children. Most of the acting was okay, though I found Rose
Byrne’s performance a little over-the-top and exaggerated in the role of Ellie
Wagner.
The biggest problem for me was in
the writing. A lot of the characters, from the social workers, to the parents
interested in foster care, to the nosy neighbor played by Joan Cusack, they
were so big and clichéd. There was a definite lack of subtlety there. I get the
idea of comedic effect, but it was not that funny. And most at the attempts at
verbal comedy, through the script, felt awkward.
That being said, some moments
still made me laugh, some made me smile and some others were quite touching. It
was a decent film, not without its definite flaws.
Rating: «««
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