Screen legend Paul Newman (Twilight) deIivers a brilliant 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 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 Iast performances, and his ex-boss' wife, Melanie Griffith (Paradise), are the women in his Iife 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 WilIis (Billy Bathgate), Pruitt Taylor Vince (China Moon), Gene Saks (A Thousand Clowns), Josef Sommer (StiII of the Night), Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master) and Philip Bosco (Angie). |