The Friend
The Friend is the type of movie we don’t anymore. A smallish movie with well established actors just telling a quaint story. Back in the day, you would go watch such films on a lazy Sunday with your mom. Nowadays, since they are few and far between, they are skipped altogether.
The Friend stars Naomi Watts and Bill Murray. It’s tells a story of Watts’s character struggling to find a home for Murray’s great Dane and dealing with his ex-wives after he dies. It’s a story about mourning, but also acceptance. And a big dog in a small apartment. Watts and Murray were just really great friends, maybe once lovers, but now the friendship kept them together. It is hard to say goodbye with a dear friend one whom you never noticed was one in the first place.
I hope we get a bit more of these type of smallish films, but the future of Hollywood is dire.
3 of 5 stars.
