Top Five Recent Movies about Middle-aged Men who are Emotionally Detached
by Ernie on 14/03/10 at 9:31 am
5. About Schmidt (2002): retired man, discovers his life is pretty empty when, after his wife dies, he has no meaningful social connections, a fact made especially apparent at his daughter’s wedding.
4. Up in the Air (2009): middle-aged man discovers his life is pretty empty and meaningless, which is especially apparent at his sister’s wedding when he learns that someone else is “giving her away” at the ceremony, and his offer to do that is rebuffed.
3. Last Chance Harvey (2008): middle-aged man discovers his life is pretty empty while on a trip to England for his daughter’s wedding. He discovers that her step-father, not himself, is “giving her away” at the ceremony, and his offer to do that is rebuffed. He starts to redeem himself via a number of emotional gestures and via a relationship with Emma Thompson.
2. Everybody’s Fine (2009): Robert DeNiro plays a middle-aged man who is detached from his children attempts to remedy this by and visiting them.
1. The Savages (2007): Phillip Seymour Hoffman plays a middle-aged man who, along with his sister, is emotionally detached from life, even watching passively as his long-term girlfriend is forced to leave the country due to lack of a green card. He and his sister are forced to confront their empty lives when they come together to help their absent father with his terminal illness.
