I'll See You In My Dreams

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    I'll See You in My Dreams
    Movie Blurb by Shale
    June 5, 2015

    I've been watching the trailers for this movie over the last month and really like the main actors, so it was my movie of the week. I rarely go online for movie info until I get home but this time I peeked at Rotten Tomatoes and saw the aggregate critics gave it 93% fresh and 76% of audiences liked it. I wonder if the audience was 70 somethings like the two main characters? It was only white hair in the matinee today.

    The story opens with the quiet, routine life of Carol Peterson (Blythe Danner) a widow in California who spends her days tending her garden, walking her dog, watching TV, drinking white wine and visiting her friends Sally (Rhea Perlman), Georgina (June Squibb), and Rona (Mary Kay Place), in a retirement village to play bridge.

    Bridge & Gossip With Friends
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    Everything is quite routine and unchanging until her 14-year-old dog gets ill and has to be put down. (BTW, all critic remarks I have seen give much credit to Blythe Danner for carrying this movie - the scene in the vets office is one of them - bring tissue).

    After this and finding a rat in her house and having Lloyd (Martin Starr) a new pool man show up has upset her quiet routine somewhat. She actually takes a liking to Lloyd who is a nice young man who invites her out to a Karaoke bar for drinks and fun. Turns out Carol in her youth was a singer in a band and gets quite an applause at the Karaoke bar.

    Carol & Lloyd - Drinking Buddies
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    (OK, I know what you might be thinking and I ain't gonna tell you one way or another but when I was a young man I made love to a woman 20 years older and if there was a woman 50 years older who looked like Blythe Danner, the young me woulda gone for that too.)

    Anyhow, she runs into Bill (Sam Elliot), a nice looking 70-year-old man a couple of times in the neighborhood who makes eye contact with her and eventually asks to meet her at the retirement village. They go on a couple of dates and it looks like Carol's life is going to go thru some changes.

    Bill & Carol on His Boat
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    This movie was very enjoyable - but it was my contemporaries going thru later life struggles with grace and dignity. Well, that is until the Bridge ladies got into one of their medical marijuana bongs and got a little stoned - some for the first time in decades. (Oh come on, like you never)

    Buying Munchies
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    I would recommend seeing this movie, especially for those who can relate to the lives and experiences of septuagenarians today.
     

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