Impressions

Overall I enjoyed the film & the perfs.

But the script just fell apart after it's revealed that Winona's character's brother was terminally ill. That information was the one thing, the only thing, that would have brought any degree of comfort to the family--& both decided to withhold it? Most suicide notes are composed in solitude. These have the benefit of having two sets of eyes reviewing them. It's just not credible to believe that neither thought to inform the survivors that he was dying anyway.

(Also had trouble that the family didn't seem that affected by Michael's suicide).

Then the scene on the 110 was clearly intended to set up the audience for the surprise of seeing Ray Romano still alive in the end. What revelation that had previously eluded the main character comes to him as he sits & watches a man not jump off a bridge?

The ending?

Not as bad, but still blithely ignores the issues that kept Romano's character from breaking free of a life he hated--money, perhaps assuming that Bentley's character amassed a sizable nest egg from writing suicide notes, so that both might break free & recreate their lives.

Still, liked the hopeful note (not to mention appreciating the writers' having avoided the obvious temptation to make Winona's character a potential client for Bentley:) & totally dug Richard Riehle's cameo.