As the summer season fades into the fall nights so the film season changes. The summer fireworks have been fired and the awards season canons are ready to be unleashed. Not all awards movies come out during the fall but trends lately have been that most have. For this reason it’s no secret, well should not be a secret, that the fall is my favorite time for movies. It all leads up to the movie event of the year and that is my annual Oscar party. Yes, I am biased like that and I’m sure those who have attended can verify that fact.
I ended what I call the summer season Friday night on a high note when I saw the late showing of the independent flick Robot And Frank. The movie itself stars Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon, the guy from the Straw Dogs remake (why was it deemed a good idea to remake that one? The Dustin Hoffman 1971 movie is great and did not need to be remade), and the voice of Peter Sarsgaard.
Though set in the slight future and one of your title characters is a robot the movie is a very far cry from science fiction. The movie itself touched on aging, alzheimers, and how it effects those around them. I loved how the movie portrayed its subject. It touched on it without being sappy.
What I really loved about the movie was its weird since of humor. It’s a very dark sense of humor but that has never stopped me from enjoying some laughs. The jokes weren’t slapstick which made me think why I was laughing and that challenge I really enjoyed.
Robot & Frank I enjoyed and was a fine entry in the summer season as well as an enjoyable movie from 2012. Now for those long fall nights and movies that tend to battle in the arena of Oscar.
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