{"id":151183,"date":"2015-03-15T21:04:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T04:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=151183"},"modified":"2015-03-16T15:24:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T22:24:20","slug":"danny-collins-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2015\/03\/15\/danny-collins-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Collins Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

DANNY COLLINS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bleecker Street<\/strong>
\nReviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya. Databased on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/strong>
\nGrade: B<\/strong>
\nDirector: Dan Fogelman<\/strong>
\nScreenwriter:\u00a0 Dan Fogelman<\/strong>
\nCast:\u00a0 Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Jennifer Garner, Bobby Cannavale, Christopher Plummer<\/strong>
\nScreened at: Dolby24, NYC, 3\/9\/15<\/strong>
\nOpens:\u00a0 March 20, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s best not to have a family, despite what sociologists say about how married people are happier and live longer.\u00a0 If you\u2019re an aging parent nowadays, you would not be considered too pessimistic if you think that your children will have nothing to do with you\u2014or at best would put you in a home and visit once a month.\u00a0 On the other hand, if you\u2019re a young person, you might suffer the misfortune of being unattended to by your own parents.\u00a0 Absentee fathers and uncaring folks are part of what makes dysfunctional families the norm.<\/p>\n

\u201cDanny Collins\u201d is about the latter situation.\u00a0 The title character, now an aging rocker (Al Pacino), had a brief affair with a woman who later died of cancer.\u00a0 While Danny is on global tours, he complete ignores his son, Tom Donnelly (Bobby Cannavale), a man who now has a pregnant wife, Samantha Leigh Donnelly (Jennifer Garner) and a small, hyperactive daughter, Jamie (Giselle Eisenberg).\u00a0 When Danny, now in his sixties, receives a\u00a0 four-decades\u2019 old letter of praise from John Lennon delivered to him by his manager Frank Grubman (Christopher Plummer), he decides to end his hard-living ways.\u00a0 No more drink, no more cocaine, and most of all Danny decides to become a real father for the first time.\u00a0 He shows up in his son\u2019s house in New Jersey after flying in on his private plane only to discover that Tom, now afflicted with a life-threatening leukemia, is so angry that he does not want to talk to the older guy.\u00a0 For the remainder of the film, Danny considers it his job to make up for lost time, even to subsidize his granddaughter\u2019s education by driving her every day from New Jersey to a progressive Manhattan school, and to be with Tom during a crucial medical appointment where Tom will hear how long he has left to live.<\/p>\n

Al Pacino is his usual melodramatic self, whether singing his signature song \u201cHey, Baby Doll\u201d in his sixties to a huge audience or making the rounds of smaller halls where he tries to convince an aging audience that \u201cHey, Baby Doll\u201d has been done to death and that it\u2019s time to hear some of Danny\u2019s own compositions.\u00a0 There is considerable comedy and much pathos in the film, the comic turns finding him asking hotel manager Mary Sinclair (Annette Bening) for a dinner date so many times that the audience cannot be blamed for joining with Mary in saying \u201cEnough, already.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is a family type comedy-drama, not an art-house style entry, which could attract not only Pacino\u2019s regular fans but the soap opera crowd as well.\u00a0 Older members of the audience will find cheer in the possibility of their entering a second chapter in their own lives, but one may well wonder what attraction songs like \u201cHey, Baby Doll,\u201d which does not have a rock rhythm, and a new composition from Danny which is more like a ballad you\u2019d find on \u201cYour Hit Parade\u201d during the 1950s.<\/p>\n

This is middlebrow Pacino, heartwarming but not especially emotional, written and directed by Dan Fogelman in his debut as a director\u2014though Fogelman is well known as a screenwriter for such works as \u201cCrazy Stupid Love,\u201d also starring a middle-aged man, but that one trying to recover from his wife\u2019s asking for a divorce by picking up girls in bars.<\/p>\n

Rated R.\u00a0 106 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a9 Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/strong><\/p>\n

Story \u2013 C+<\/strong>
\nActing \u2013 B<\/strong>
\nTechnical \u2013 B<\/strong>
\nOverall – B<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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