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Other People (2016)

Drama | 97 minutes
3,11 96 votes

Genre: Drama / Comedy

Duration: 97 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Chris Kelly

Stars: Jesse Plemons, Molly Shannon and Bradley Whitford

IMDb score: 6,8 (12.999)

Releasedate: 9 September 2016

Other People plot

David is a struggling comedy writer. When his relationship with his boyfriend ends, he moves from New York to Sacramento to help his ailing mother. Now living under one roof with his conservative father and many younger sisters for the first time in 10 years, he feels like a stranger in his childhood home. When his mother's health deteriorates, David tries to find meaning behind this terrible experience and convince everyone that he is well.

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sandokan-veld

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The first ten minutes threatened to become a boring indie comedy (there was even a living room concert). But over time, that ironic, distant tone seemed to belie itself in a way that I had seen before, but which has been worked out quite nicely here. The main character who frowns at the messes around him turns out to be the biggest schlemiel himself, as soon as tragedy strikes (or something like that).

Somehow I still expected the film to hit me harder. The two main themes, losing a parent to cancer in your late 20s, and surviving as a gay man in the 21st century, are two things I literally experienced. Maybe that's why I realized too well how the film tried to manipulate my mind?

Anyway, I found a number of scenes genuinely touching, or funny, or both. And at the end I wiped a tear from the corner of my eye and sniffled to myself: 'Actually, Drops Of Jupiter is quite a good song', so the makers have achieved their goal in that respect (bunch of assholes).

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IH88

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“This all just feels like... something that happens to other people.”

“Yeah well now, you're other people to other people.”

Solid drama film. Films with a family that has to deal with a family member with cancer (in this case the mother) usually follow a fixed pattern, and Other People manages to interpret this in its own unique way. Because the mother has cancer, but the film is mainly about the eldest son David (the wonderful Plemons), who has to come to terms with the loss of his mother and the difficult relationship with his father, who still has not accepted that David is homosexual. The film fails to impress at important moments, but it all feels sincere and the acting is very strong.

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Fortune

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I am a fan of Jesse Plemons, otherwise I would not have watched this film. Jesse is known from Breaking Bad and other films and in my eyes always plays a psychopathic teddy bear. In this he plays a different role, a conservative gay man. I don't know if you can call this conservative either, he had problems with a twerking underage drag queen.

These are not really my films, you can compare it with the Dutch film Simon. Yes, indeed that kind of film and these films are also important because people have to deal with death and with loved ones who die. It's also a kind of dry, down-to-earth style that you always get, as if life becomes very dry afterwards with awkward moments and the like. Maybe that is true, but I always see that style in a film in which someone dies of an illness, as if it has to be that way.

Anyway, the acting is very natural and convincing and a sincere film with its heart in the right place, as they say. I didn't find it really funny, not at all actually. At times the film felt far too American, especially with that group of actors in New York. What a bunch of happy bastards they are. The faces at the end became a bit too sad for me all the time. Yes, it is heavy and difficult and unfair, but at the same time you can say goodbye and as far as I'm concerned you don't have to sit sad in a restaurant with your whole family.

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