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Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Some Kind of Beautiful (2014)

This is a sad sort of romantic comedy, where you really have to be able to relate more to the middle aged Lothario than to the much younger women who seem to fall for his foot free and fancy loose charm.  If you have been a long term Pierce Brosnan fan you will find this entirely within his predictable repertoire of late.  To his credit, while he has aged more than gracefully, he definitely looks his age.
Brosnan plays Richard Haig, a man who has followed almost impeccably in the footsteps of his absent father, avoiding long term entanglements as well as the consequences of sleeping with his students, which he does as a matter of course.  Then a student gets pregnant and he decides to change it all in for fatherhood (which is the big leap that the film doesn't expertly uncover how exactly that came about, but part of it is the poor relationship he has with his own father and not necessarily wanting to have those regrets).  Brosnan is affable and glides through this light movie with heavy themes if you are on the side of the child, and it is a good streaming Netflix show, if not exactly a good movie.

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