Lovely, Still (2008) DVD

Lovely, Still (2008) with Martin Landau & Ellen Burstyn DVD

Director: Nicholas Fackler
Writers: Nicholas Fackler
Stars: Martin Landau, Ellen Burstyn and Elizabeth Banks

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A single Robert Malone (Martin Landau on Tribute) falls in love with Mary (Burstyn), the mom of his neighbor Alex (Banks). With the assistance of his boss Mike (Scott), Robert decides to spend Christmas with somebody for the primary time.

Over a interval of some days and with the “co-conspiratorial assist” from the grocery retailer supervisor, as a pair they take pleasure in a number of actions main as much as Christmas, together with issues like a carriage journey, a procuring spree, attending a musical efficiency collectively, and a celebration. On the occasion, Robert mistakenly accuses one other older man of being the rotten, no good husband who had left Mary earlier than.

Lovely, Still 2008 Small Scene

Lovely, Still 2008 Small Poster

Because the story progresses, we start to grasp that Mary is aware of much more and is rather more involved about making Robert joyful day-by-day than is likely to be in any other case anticipated for a senior couple, together with moments of quiet intimacy.

When the movie attracts to a detailed, more emotional storyline we discover out that Alex, Mike, Mary, and even the “alleged” boyfriend are all a part of the story, as it’s Robert’s situation of Alzheimer’s / senile dementia taking him away from them for days at a time, resulting in a really candy ending.

Lovely, Still 2008 Screenshot

Dec. 25th is about to arrive and Mary takes Robert to a celebration at her cousins home, the place Robert awkwardly tries to combine into conversations. A little bit lady greets Robert by identify, however when he doesnt acknowledge her, she cries. Robert then sees Mary in a heated speak with a person, and he confronts him, assuming the stranger is her ex-husband or lover, however she explains that he’s solely a buddy.

Mary and Robert stroll out into the calmly falling snow, slowly dancing collectively.

On Christmas morning, Robert is joyful to seek out Mary sleeping in mattress subsequent to him. They go on to eagerly open presents collectively: he has given her a snow globe, and he or she has given him a paint set to encourage his artwork work. She is quickly shocked, nevertheless, when she opens the present that he had beforehand wrapped for himself, discovering a gun inside. He explains that he had grown drained and didn’t wish to reside alone anymore, so he deliberate to kill himself on Christmas, however since he met Mary, she modified every thing in his life. He tells her he’s in love together with her, and so they embrace the German movie poster below:

Lovely, Still 2008 German Poster

Later that day, Mike comes over to indicate Robert that he has fastened his storage, and to his shock, he brings Marys daughter Alex. All 4 of them then eat TV dinners collectively.

In mattress that night time, Robert tells the sleeping Mary that regardless of their quick time collectively, he appears like she has been with him his complete life. He says that he’ll ask her to marry him.

Whereas portray the subsequent day, Robert comes out of a pause and cant discover Mary, sending him into an enormous panic. Mary returns and tries to offer Robert a tablet, however he doesn’t acknowledge her, and he turns into irrationally irate.

Mike and Alex come over and attempt to assist Mary relax Robert, however he grows so distraught that he runs throughout the road and barricades himself in Marys home. There he sees on the partitions photos of himself with Mary as a youthful couple, and with Mike and Alex as kids in Ellen’s recent film. He realizes he had forgotten his relationships with all of them, and collapses to the ground.

Lovely, Still 2008 Christmas Scene

A flashback subsequent reveals how Mary arrange the home throughout the road for getting Love, Still on DVD her husband Robert, whose reminiscence had been failing. All this time, their kids Mike and Alex had been serving to her to take care of the phantasm that she was a brand new love in his life.

On the hospital, Mary brings Robert the snow globe he gave her as a present, however his thoughts is nearly gone and he has little response. Mary guarantees that she’s going to love him perpetually, and he or she locations his marriage ceremony ring which she had been sporting again on his finger.

 

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