What A Beautiful Film!!! Like Rain Man, Only Better!

Yes, better than Rain Man.

Very good acting in this one.

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Just saw this movie on the THIS digital TV network. Some small flaws, but I still liked it quite a bit. I agree the realtionship between the two men was wonderfully portrayed, quite touching.

That being said, I felt the movie did dip its toe into made-for-TV style melodrama just a bit. I had mixed feelings about the episode where Nicky tries to rescue the baby. For the most part, I felt it was courageous of the filmakers to go some place dramatically that I the viewer didn't predict. But I can see where some people would think it was a bit over the top.

Did the boy really have to die? Generally, I'm not the type of viewer who wants a movie to wimp out and shy away from tragedy and have everything all sunny-happy. But I think the key is to have just the right amount of tragedy, not too much and not too little. It seemed to me that if the boy had just gotten hurt badly enough to go to the emergency room, that would have been enough. But to have him die seemed liked overdoing it. The dog being hit by the car seemed unnecessary to me also.

I also found it a little strange that Eugene would go off on his own particularly after this epdisode. Yes, Nicky's actions were well intended. But if I were Eugene, I think it would leave me feeling that Nicky might be prone to other actions of a dangerous and unpredictable sort and therefore not ready to live life unsupervised.

So there was a credibility gap ot two, But I did find this to have much more emotional impact that Rain Man. No comparison between Liotta and Tom Cruise. By the end of Rain Man, Cruise's character was supposed to be transformed and now caring about his brother. But I didn't find Cruise's portrayal of those emotions convincing at all. He still seemed to me like the same self-absorbed annoying person he had been throughout the movie. (But then again, to expect otherwise would be to assume Tom Cruise can act!)

I agree. Who in the hell wants to watch child abuse? Espacially see the kid die? Whoever decided to create this whole thing should burn in hell. As for David Strathairn, you agreed to take on this role, so that says alot about your real life character. You are a rotten ass who hates kids. You are a scumbag and the people who created this should hate themselves for the rest of their lives!

Apart from the fact that both films deal with a person's relationship with a mentally handicapped brother, Dominick and Eugene is so different from Rainman that it doesn't mean very much to compare them. Perhaps most importantly, Rainman isn't nearly as tragic as this film.

However, I will say that Ray Liotta is far more talented than Tom Cruise, it's unfortunate that he's been typecast in tough guy cop or gangster roles.'

It's equally unfortunate that Tom Hulce didn't have much of a career after Amadeus.

Like Sgt. Osiris said, "never go full retard". That's why this film worked.

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