It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

My roommate and I visited Hollywood in 1991 or 92 and for grins we decided to screen a show (where you watch an episode and give feedback). We were "treated" to the pilot for "The Boys of Twilight". The title was a weak double-entendre as I recall, since the show focused on the lives of the men in their twilight years who lived in the town of twilight. Since what I saw was the pilot, it didn't have much of a plot except to introduce all of the septuagenarians that lived in the town. After we were done with the screening we compared notes--we had both given it very low ratings in the screening. I was shocked to actually see an episode of it during the rerun season the following year. I figured they must have decided to fill low-value air time by burning the episodes of what was clearly a "not ready for prime time" show.