I fell in love with film again last night when I saw this film. Reborn faith in humanity and that a ending can be all things like in life, sad, happy, anticlimactic; probing one to start their own personal inventory of what life is really about. This done so effortlessly all wrapped up in one film with out feeling preachy or like an old cliché. A must for any future film maker and anyone still making film. The back story was also nicely done with just a few scenes of trouble youth and a old mans call to say hello to his estranged daughter only to be put on ice as she tells him she will have to call him back later(we know will never come.) How easy it is to discard people, things, animals(dogs)when they are not right in front of you. They lose their importance and we forget their worth which might be as simple as sharing a cigar(Cuban of course) or a bone. Great use of Los Angeles and reminds us why it is the City of Angels. Oscars watch out! Original Screenplay, editing and performance from Christopher Plummer.
Review of Man in the Chair
