3 Days with Dad (2019)
Storyline
The last thing Eddie Mills wants to do is go home to deal with his dying Dad. But the Catholic guilt gnaws at him, and he returns home to his crazy family, an overbearing step-mother, and his bear of a father. Once there, Eddie is confronted with a revelation that forces him to deal with the past he has always avoided.
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Cast
J.K. Simmons, Larry Clarke, Tom Arnold, Brian Dennehy, Jon Gries, Chris Bauer, Tom Yi, Mike O'Malley, Sam Trammell, Julie Ann Emery, Amy Landecker, Lesley Ann Warren, Eric Edelstein, Steele Stebbins, Mo Gaffney, Laura House, Joseph R. Sicari, Joe Pacheco, Kathleen Dennehy, Nate Shelkey, Ryan P. Shrime
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Reviews
60
The high-wire tonal balancing act proves a little wobbly at times, resulting in a film that is feels less than the sum of its parts. But some of those parts work very well, providing moments of uncomfortable hilarity and genuine poignancy.
60
Ultimately, however, this tonally untidy yet incrementally affecting dramedy scores a cumulative impact by credibly and astutely depicting eruptions, disruptions and reconciliations during the long goodbye to a dying paterfamilias.
50
3 Days with Dad touches upon subjects like familial differences, living up to your parents’ expectations, sibling rivalry, and generational differences. Too bad it’s all been done before, and better. Its flaccid visual approach and meandering, morose plot may make you pull the plug on your TV set.
50
It’s those human touches that make 3 Days with Dad endurable. And if they don’t quite save it (the difference between character actors and leading actors is not skill, but charisma), they at least give it purpose, with the occasional break for levity.
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