Let's be realistic.

Good movie but grossly overrated

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

For whatever reason, I started this film thinking it was about a woman finding love and companionship later in life. I usually like those kinds of films because they are something different from the usual fare of 20-somethings romance movies. It wasn't too long ago I saw Debra Winger's comeback film entitled "The Lovers," so that's probably why I had this assumption. However, the movie is actually a very bleak family drama about death. It shows how an upper middle-class social circle handles life in the aftermath and ambiance of death and dying. It made me cringe a little bit to see how the adult sons react to everything, but I suppose that really is how young people respond when they confront the realities of life for the first time. In summary, they react very poorly and with indignation, as if life owes them something and they expected better. I am actually younger than these characters, but I have encountered disease and death so much in my life already that all of this is far too familiar to me. I would say this film is not an unrealistic portrayal of this subject matter. The central message is that, despite death, people go on living as normal. The human drama never stops. Life is for the living and there's not much time to waste out of our finite lives to grieve. People chase endlessly after love and romance despite the futility of it all. Honestly, this is why I refuse to have children. I dislike life and by not reproducing it's like my way of having revenge against it. I would not want my children to face these horrible things like aging, death, disease, loss, and heartbreak. Other people think breeding is a great idea, though. It does make good fodder for screenplays and art films.The movie is a little pretentious, but I appreciate the non-linear editing and the fact that it makes you think a bit and face a truth that most people like to hide from. It also helps that Andie MacDowell is very beautiful and it was nice to see her again. She was easily the best part of this movie. There is another film that deals with the same subject matter in a less depressing and more comedic way named "The Savages" (2007) if you're interested.

Following the death of their father, two sons deal with the trials of their own lives while watching their mother explore new beginnings of her own. Love After Love is another film where Andie MacDowell feels like she is typecast or something i mean most of her movies by now are the same where she plays some divorced or married mother who has kids that she doesn't see often and basically looks sad for half of the film. And this isn't doing anything new either, it was slow and a bit way too much on the indie type of drama than your typical one and just a waste.

I had hoped for the story of a widow rebuilding her life and finding love again. However, it was a disjointed production primarily featuring the dysfunctional people around her. It was difficult to stay until the end.

I was hoping to be able to lose myself in this film but alas all I wanted to do was leave the theater. Hung it but it never got better. All of the characters were so flawed that it just wasn't believable!