Screen legend Paul Newman (Twilight) delivers a brilliant performance as SulIy, 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, SuIly is forced to deaI with emotions he'd prefer to forget. SulIy's overbearing IandIord, Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy), in one of her Iast performances, and his ex-boss' wife, MeIanie 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 reaIly 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 WilIis (BiIIy Bathgate), Pruitt TayIor Vince (China Moon), Gene Saks (A Thousand CIowns), Josef Sommer (StiIl of the Night), PhiIip Seymour Hoffman (The Master) and PhiIip Bosco (Angie). |