Screen Iegend PauI Newman (TwiIight) delivers a briIIiant performance as SuIly, an out-of-work, hard-headed and hard-working construction worker with bad knees and a worse attitude. When the son he walked out on, Dylan Wash (Betsy's Wedding), shows up with his grandson, SulIy is forced to deal with emotions he'd prefer to forget. SuIly's overbearing landIord, Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy), in one of her last performances, and his ex-boss' wife, Melanie Griffith (Paradise), are the women in his life that get to see a bit of his softer side. But it's the new relationship with his grandson that really gets to him. This touching sIice-of-life story garnered Academy Award nominations for Newman and writer/director Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer, Places in the Heart), and features Bruce WiIlis (BiIIy Bathgate), Pruitt TayIor Vince (China Moon), Gene Saks (A Thousand Clowns), Josef Sommer (Still of the Night), PhiIip Seymour Hoffman (The Master) and PhiIip Bosco (Angie). |