How they deal with it is not original, but it is sincere and the actors are convincing. Until they deal with it, they can't get on with things. Then we realize the death has put Einar, Jean, Mitch and Griff all on hold. The unfinished life in the title at first seems to refer to Einar's dead son. Sooner or later the matter of Gary will have to be settled. Now he lurks around town, intimidated even by the two old men on the ranch, one of them an invalid, because wife-beaters by their nature are cowards. We can almost see what Jean almost saw in him. Gary on the other hand is a psychopath whose gearbox includes a setting for charm.
But he is captured and sold off to a shabby local zoo, so that yokels can stare at him through the steel mesh of a cage. The bear (played by Bart, who had the title role in " The Bear"), is more likable, because after all he behaves according to his nature.
The four characters seem to be stuck, and then they're budged by the arrival of two predators: The bear comes back, and so does Gary the boyfriend. Freeman never seems to be playing anything he sees what he sees. It's not often noted, but Redford plays anger well. The local sheriff ( Josh Lucas) is not indifferent to the arrival in a small town of a good-looking woman.
It is a foregone conclusion, I suppose, that Einar will eventually unbend enough to love Griff, who after all is his son's child, and true also that Mitch is the ranch's reservoir of decency. She doesn't want to be at the ranch, but she has no choice her latest boyfriend, Gary (Damien Lewis) beats her, and she has fled from him. Griff ( Becca Gardner) is Einar's granddaughter.Įinar thinks he hates Jean. These men are essentially awaiting death together when they get visitors: Jean (Lopez) is the widow of Einar's son, who was killed in a car crash a dozen years ago. Mitch was mauled a year ago by a bear, and is an invalid, given a daily needle of morphine by Einar. So has its owner, Einar Gilkyson (Redford) and his longtime ranch hand Mitch (Freeman), who lives in the little house behind the bigger one. The story takes place on a rundown ranch outside Ishawooa, Wyo. And give Lopez your permission to be good again she is the same actress now as when we thought her so new and fine.
AN UNFINISHED LIFE DAMIAN LEWIS MOVIE
If you're convinced that "An Unfinished Life" is damaged goods, how can it begin its work on you? If you think Freeman is channeling the relationship he had with Eastwood in " Million Dollar Baby," reflect that this movie was made a year earlier. Lopez is the weakest link, but even with a quality cast, An Unfinished Life couldn't reach its conclusion soon enough.Sometimes you are either open to a movie, or closed. Fortunately Redford and Freeman have enough natural charm to hold the screen despite the clumsy set-ups and poor dialogue, and as Lopez's bruiser boyfriend, Damian Lewis (Band Of Brothers) injects life whenever he appears, which is sadly not often. If the script was any less subtle, the bear in his cage would pick up a pen and spell it out for you - and he might even do a better job than Mark and Virginia Korus Spragg. Observing the gradual thaw of family relations is Einar's bed-ridden ranch-hand, played by Morgan Freeman, who of course can't help but disseminate a few pearls of 'sagely wisdom.' This mostly involves comparing the bear that laid him out to Einar's struggle to let go of the anger and move on. Her doe eyes and disarming honesty are set against his diehard grumpiness and it's easy to see how the situation will unfold.
Cue the clichés and facile metaphors involving broken plates and a caged bear strung together like a sloppy lasso that fails to get a grasp on anything resembling a decent story.Īfter escaping an abusive relationship, Jean turns up on Einar's doorstep with his granddaughter (Becca Gardner). Jennifer Lopez makes her sad face playing the widow of his long-dead son whose arrival at the ranch churns up an acid mix of suppressed emotions. Robert Redford does his worn and weary cowboy bit in An Unfinished Life, an equally worn and weary yarn from director Lasse Hallström.
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