The movie stars Andy Garcia (The Untouchables, Class Act), Julianna Margulies (ER tv, A Price above Rubles), Steven Strait, Dominik Garcia-Lorido, Ezra Miller (Afterschool), Emily Mortimer (Shutter Island, Scream 3), and Alan Arkin (Glengary Glen Ross, The Russians are Comming, The Russian are Comming).
The plot of the is Garcia, a strugling actor/Corrections Officer, takes in his grown son as part of his parole. A big part of the movie is secrets. Garcia wantingto be an actor, his daughter becoming a stripper to make up for a lost scolership. And the fact that Garcia has a grown son (his wife Margulies does not know) an ex con to live with them.
So I rated this movie as a C-, The plot and structure of the movie are good. This is a type of movie I like but it did not get to the point where I can recomend it. I would say pass on it but it is not a strong pass. My problem with the movie is Garcia and Margulies are trying to act like they are from City Island, a section of the Bronx. For me they came across as acting and not real. You may not have a problem with there performances but for me they were not that convincing. Where Sandra Bullock was totally convincing in The Blind Side, the lead actors in this movie were not up to that level of performance.
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