Joe_Rog The premise is about a family of writers, a father, daughter and son dealing with love over the course of a year. The father is a divorcee and still has conflicting feelings for his ex-wife who he has been apart from for 3 years. It's a story about finding love and holding onto it, i guess another theme could be to not rush head on into love for fear of getting hurt and doing this by learning from personal experience (for instance the daughter and son learning from their parents).This film has an amazing cast (amazing as in great performances, it's not exactly an A-list cast which i think would ruin it due to the genre of the film) and uses the actors to the absolute best of it's abilities.One of the best performances in this movie is probably Greg Kinnear as he strikes the balance between a good and a bad father through no fault of his own as he's caught up in the complexities of his own love life. Which is another great thing about this film, as the children are supposed to be between 17-19 years old, they actually go through the same problems as the adults, thus making everyone in this film equal and shows that no matter who you are or what you're background is, everyone gets hurt by love, and more or less everyone reacts the same.If I had one problem with this film it's that it could have been about 20-30 minutes longer as it's one of those films where you want to know more back story of the characters, particularly Greg Kinnear's.But as I say, this film couldn't have used the actors better for this genre. To compliment the acting and great story the soundtrack is one of the best I've heard for a long time. The first track we hear is "Home - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros" which is an amazing, comforting, happy, melancholic song in of itself, but it opens the film with a huge bang of presumptions that enter your mind of where this film could lead you.It leads you exactly where you want it to.There will be some things I've left out purposefully as I hate any reviews or trailers that just show you all the best bits and you go to see the movie and find that they really were the ONLY good bits. So watch the movie and enjoy it for what it is!

JohnnyLee1 Rom-com with a difference. Inter-generational, so that parents and kids are all going through throes of love at different stages. Loved how script handled all the relationships. Lot of truth in how everyone at different times felt alone, unsupported. Acting great, especially Greg Kinnear who has to hold everything together. Personally liked literary setting, though dad must have written best-sellers to live where he does!

Morgan This is an extremely good film because of the different views it takes on how to deal with different aspects of life, for example love, divorce, parents divorce, drugs, careers, etc. It looks mainly at love but it has many different views on it. The first is that unrequited love, or the love that is given but not gotten back, the painful awkward love between Bill (Greg Kinnear) the father and Erica (Jennifer Connelly) the mother. Then there is the young love between Rusty (Nat Wolff) and Kate (Liana Liberato), or the true pure love of something new and strong. Then there is the confusing twisted love between Sam (Lily Collins) and Louis (Logan Lerman). This is probably the most confusing because at first Sam doesn't want anything to do with Lou but he is slightly obsessed with her and with that he is able to break her out of her demonic state of "love is hateful and evil". Sam's views on love are taken from her parents nasty divorce and her mother cheating on her father. She views love as being cruel and punishing but then finds Lou who changes her views a complete 180. The switching between the different views on different topics is very successful in engaging the viewer. Another reason this film is so good is because of the way the characters change through out the film and the way the relationships between characters change. The first to change with the biggest change in the film was Sam who changed perspectives on love completely and also very drastically. This change occurs almost too rapidly because one minute she hates love and wants nothing to do with it then the next she is crying in a car, from the fear of being in love, with a boy that obviously fell in love with her at first sight. Next is the change in Kate who struggles with a drug problem but gets much better then takes a terrible turn for the worst when she has a near death experience from a drug overdose. But at the end she is in rehab writing to Rusty about how much better she is doing, so we can assume that by the end of it she overcomes her problem. Another character to change is Erica who switches between being in love with Bill and not. I say "being in love with" but throughout the film i think she is always in love with him she just changes how much back and forth throughout the film. These changes are also a very successful way to keep the audiences attention and entertained throughout. I personally also like the real life situations that all of the characters face through the film and the different ways of coping that they take. Like the difference in the very common problem of a parents divorce, and the different ways that Rusty and Sam handle it. Rusty stays in the middle and for the most part without taking sides while Sam chooses her father, Bill's side and for the majority of the film chooses to have absolutely no relationship with her mother, Erica. Another big problem is drugs. Weed through out the film is there but it isn't exactly a problem for anyone. Kate struggles the most with drugs through the film (mostly cocaine from what we can gather) to the point of almost dying from an overdose. These struggles and more are very relatable to just about anyone watching the film therefor this is another successful way to hold the attention of the audience.

Lunar Doll This is my absolute favorite movie. It has some hard parts, but above all it's a love story. I love the trials that the characters face; they seem realistic, and the acting is amazing. I especially enjoy the writing aspect that the characters thrive in; family hobbies are great, and it's the passion that the characters have that really sell the movie. Without the actors, the movie wouldn't be nearly as good, but anything that can be made great with good actors is already good on its own. 10/10 would recommend. ------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------