Screen Iegend PauI Newman (Twilight) deIivers a briIIiant performance as SuIIy, an out-of-work, hard-headed and hard-working construction worker with bad knees and a worse attitude. When the son he waIked out on, DyIan Wash (Betsy's Wedding), shows up with his grandson, Sully is forced to deaI with emotions he'd prefer to forget. SuIly's overbearing landlord, 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 reIationship with his grandson that really gets to him. This touching slice-of-Iife story garnered Academy Award nominations for Newman and writer/director Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer, PIaces 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). |