2000 - Rated R - 1 hr 47 min
Director: Michael Kalesniko
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Robin Wright, Suzi Hofrichter, Lynn Redgrave, Jared Harris, Peter Riegert, David Krumholtz, Jonathan Schaech, Kaitlin Hopkins, Peri Gilpin
Grumpiness doesn't get much better than Kenneth Branagh's Peter McGowan, troubled has-been writer who's wife desperately wants kids and who's latest play has the potential to fall apart at any moment. Enter a barky neighborhood dog, a new kid next door with cerebral palsy, a director who sings all day long, and a doppelganger - that's the perfect recipe for a movie. Of all his roles, this is my favorite Branaugh. Robin Wright is also perfect as his dancer and would-be mother wife.
The movie has a sadistically comic tone, but the most beautiful storyline somehow evolves between Branaugh's character and the little girl next door. A sweet, simple understanding blooms there and it seems to pure and real that you can't help but get emotionally invested. It will warm (and break) your little heart.
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