Niki Kefala "Kodachrome" is a character-driven drama that is proof of the concept that solid direction and good acting can transform even a mediocre script into something worth watching. It is an engaging story with top flight performances by all involved. Ed Harris is amazing as usual and actually this is the Jason Sudeikis and Ed Harris show, and it really works. The story is predictable, but even so, it takes a few twists and turns that I didn't see coming. The movie has real, carefully written characters and mostly avoids cliché, thanks to that. Movies like "Kodachrome" don't come around often enough in my opinion. When they do, we must think of them as a good choice of a film night.

bbewnylorac Ed Harris, as renowned photographer Ben Ryder, is worth the price of admission to this movie. Ben is dying of cancer, but Harris obviously relishes how crusty, blunt, and often offensive Ben is. Ben blackmails his long estranged son Matt, into coming on a road trip with him to get some old film rolls developed at a Kodak factory in Kansas. Don't know why they don't just fly!! I think Jason Sudeikis is too intense to play Matt, but he is a good actor. Matt is often as nasty and dysfunctional as Ben. His simmering anger that his father abandoned him as a child, to travel the world as a photojournalist, is understandable. However the father-son schtick does sometimes get a bit heavy. The go-between is Ben's paid carer, Zoe (Elizabeth Olsen) whose character, I felt, was too much the 'hot but shallowly written' love interest. She spends most of the film batting her eyelids and flicking her hair. There's never any doubt that she and Matt will end up together. But before that, some of her scenes berating both Ben and Matt for abusing each other, and urging them to make peace, are effective. The death scenes are handled movingly, and the final scene of viewing the newly developed slides, showing Matt as a child, with Ben (in the photos) looking on, are nicely done. It's all a little bit slight, though. 'Dad and son don't talk, Dad and son go on road trip. Dad and son make up. Dad dies. The End'. I think this movie means well. But it's far from excellent.

fyns57 It's hard to find good dialogue and good acting anymore. This film had both. Ed Harris is always compelling, young Elisabeth Olsen is perfect for this role. Loved her character in Wind River also. Jason Sudeikis is funny, as always, but really played the dramatic scenes well I thought. Good "date night" kinda movie. I guess I enjoyed it more than most because of SO many parallels in my life......BUT ISN'T THAT WHAT WE ALL WANT TO SEE ?? Many great life messages here. Big 2 thumbs up. Millennials will most likely HATE this kind of film because it doesn't have the edgy JUNO vibe but I would highly recommend this to anyone over 40. Best movie I've seen since Gran Torino. Cheers.

zingkey At the dinner table Ben (Ed Harris) used the term, 'low hanging fruit.' The script writers had some understanding of the concept but then went on to write a screenplay that is all low hanging fruit. From the dying dad and the resentful son, the pretty nurse who's just along for the ride, the innuendo about Ben's brother's wife, the girl who likes The Pixies and The Smiths, the english bandmates acting like jerks. This screenplay was artless. Amazing because it was about a film photographer and a music producer who are trying to retain art in the face of corporate commodification. It was fun and enjoyable but so ridiculous and predictable.