The greatest movie ever made..!

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Probably the worst ending for a movie that I've ever seen. Movie itself is OK, but a horrible ending

I was enjoying the movie thinking he will regret and return home. Then the old boyfriend comes in, he decides to return. It seems it's more about competition to me that he is returning...Blah blah blah...Then BAM movie ends! I would've rather him died and never had a chance to return, than this ending. Anyway, my opinion!

Those (few?) who watch Robin Swicord's 2016 offering "Wakefield" will not be surprised at her earlier involvement with "Benjamin Button" - there's the same kind of tone in there somewhere. Here Swicord turns to a Nathaniel Hawthorne (and later EL Doctorow) short story to make what seems like a VEEEERRRRY long story. Basically, we're expected to sit around for 106 minutes and look at very similar, grubby and at times also offputting scenes, while star and absolute dominant of the film Brian Cranston - as Howard Wakefield - also sits around and makes comments on the life of the wife (played somewhat seductively by Jennifer Garner) and two daughters he has abruptly decided to leave ... without trace, for some months. He is able to do this, because he's in fact living hobo-like in a kind of outhouse building that overlooks their place, and he has a pair of good binoculars to watch the unfolding scene... He's rather sad to be apart from his family, but also sad about what life with that family had been like before. And he comes to the conclusion that, while maybe he was not the easiest or most dynamic of men, he was basically the hardworking funder of his family's activities, yet less and less recognised for his efforts as day followed day and month followed month.He rather quickly becomes convinced that the three are better off and happier without him, and was clearly on the point of becoming invisible at home even before he REALLY vanished... If the film has a point - and it's slightly debatable - it lies in the way we become so terribly blasé about relationships that do still have love in them in fact (as Howard realises once he is separated). Even when we are there, we are half-absent, regularly irritated, and not really trying hard enough. Of course, modern life with its rat race, trivialities, mountains of stressful nothingnesses and lack of time makes everything worthless get in the way of what really matters, so maybe it's not fully our fault. "Concentrating the mind wonderfully" by today's standards means husbands calling their wives from the supermarket on the way home to discuss the choice of yoghurt; and it's all so far from the elemental, tough-but-more-real days when a man went down the mine, or to battle, or off to sea, or into the field or the woods, and the dangers might be such that there was no absolute certainty he would ever be seen again. So Howard decides - abruptly enough - to emulate those days of yore by not being seen again. As time passes, he begins to realise what he's missing, but also reflects on all the many, many things he did not much like about his chosen woman, with whom he nevertheless sympathises, and for whom he feels growing love. How mixed up is that? Perhaps as mixed up as many a modern-day marriage.He wants her to need him, but she seems just to press on with life. He would like her to be heartbroken, but she isn't, so that ought to be his cue to get out of there. But he doesn't ... or can't.For much of the film thereafter, we in the audience feel palpable tension as to whether this is all going to end with something - or with nothing - resolved; with no closure at all. Given the cynical tone of much of the film we naturally fear the worst.And the ending is as it is...Some of us - maybe many of us - in married life do actually NEED the message that this film has to give us; but few if any are likely to make the effort to stick with and get it. But even if we watch just a few minutes, we could try and do better than Howard Wakefield, and seek not to make his mistakes. But will we actually do so? And CAN we actually do so, with the modern world dragging us down?Clearly this is not a worthless film, though the dry-as-dust Cranston has a hard job evoking much sympathy in us, and - in the end - maybe this tale was best left on the printed page, as opposed to on screen?

This film tells the story of a married man, who decides to go missing by hiding in his garage attic.The story is bizarre, as I can hardly sympathise or understand Harold's actions. Though over the course of the film, he explains why he does so, but the explanation is so twisted that no normal person could find it rational. The fact that it has little dialogs, and almost only contain his narration, is quite annoying. I did not like the story at all. It's simply bizarre.