 on everyone got a brand new movie review for you guys today and today I'm discussing what they had. What they had starts Hilary Swank and Michael Shannon as a brother and sister who are trying to help and aid their mother who is dealing with dementia and their father who's kind of reluctant to really put her in any homes and just thinking he's the perfect medicine for her. With the long going on this there are some other family dramas and family subplots that they do have to throw into this family drama. Now let me say with this I didn't love this movie I liked it it was fine but I do have some issues with it but before I get into that I do want to discuss my main biggest problem with this film is because the director Elizabeth Chomico I've probably pronouncing it wrong so I apologize I'm not really bad with names. The thing with her that she did so excellent throughout this movie is that she wrote and directed this movie and I thought the directing was pretty good but her writing was the thing that was exceptionally amazing in this film because she made me love and understand each and every one of these characters because by the end of the film I was very emotionally entitled with them maybe not with the stories and the subplots that they do deal with but I was an emotionally a wrapped with each and every character the mother the father the brother the sister the daughter it goes all around there and I start caring about each and every one of them by the point where I'm kind of getting emotionally wrapped up with where the story is going and where it ends up going in the end because biggest problems with the story was a lot of the subplots and the stories I I feel like some of the subplots weren't needed I feel like it derailed some from the story and some of the elements didn't really work overall and yes they did push some of our main characters in certain directions but I feel like it felt like a this is us episode that just was not working and tried to be this is us and I wanted it to be more than just that it felt like a typical family drama that you would get on the hallmark channel at times and at times it didn't I felt like the whole dementia storyline was one of the best aspects of the film because it was such a realistic and feeling way where you can feel like you were there you felt the dementia problems that it's going with with the mother dealing with the same with the family having to go through with it and the hard choices that they have to make in the end of the day I'm really mixed because at times I really liked the story and at times I didn't I felt very fresh it was some of the subplots it's very hard for me to get into there but again the script was great that dialogue was great it was so superb in the way that it was written really still made me emotionally unwrapped within these characters all of this just goes because of the performances now let me say I'm not the biggest 30 swing fan I think she's a good actress she's obviously won awards so she is good and I thought she was fine in here but to be honest she was the weakest actress in here to me her and the younger Farmiga were probably the weakest they're still good but they're not up to Michael Shannon's level I thought Michael Shannon ate each line up he is always that one actor that just comes in doesn't matter how good the movie is but always just steals each and every moment it was nice to see Michael Shannon not just playing that typical character that Michael Shannon plays he has a lot of emotions coming out as his brother and I just loved what Shannon did with this character a very felt for this guy big performance from me was also the dad Robert Forrester who I thought was just great the guy always shows up in these small roles and he always does such a decent job and he was great in here too and the biggest stands out of the whole entire film isn't the score which the scores kind of just fine but it's the cinematography the cinematography is gorgeous like there was one scene earlier in the film before it gets up with our opening title card where it shows someone just getting ready to leave the house and you they open a closet door and just feel like a painting a beautiful painting and I loved the look of that film I just loved what it looked like and how it just shot out and just looked gorgeous on the screen I adored what it was trying to do probably I thought about what they had had some great elements to it and a fantastic performances it made me care about each and every one of the characters in the direct writing from Elizabeth the dude was such a good job within that I do think some of the subplots could have easily been shipped out and maybe remixed maybe retold a bit to make it more central to that dementia storyline that was easily the best part about the whole film and dealing with it in such a realistic way and I feel like people who are dealing with that in real life are gonna be able to relate to the film more than I did but still I enjoyed what they had it's not one of the best films of this year I don't think it will garner any Oscar nominations but I think with a script that's very excellent and having some awesome great performances with a beautiful cinematography even though it can be slow at times and a little meandering at moments I still think this film is worth checking out especially for those performances and if you're wanting to get enraptured into some characters and just really much care about this family that's what they had is gonna give you so all that said I'm gonna give what they had a C plus had was a little decent film I think it could have been a bit better but oh well that's what films are about for but tell me guys what are your thoughts on this film have you guys seen it are you like it's 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