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    Post dates are when I watched, parenthetical dates are the year of US release (aka Oscar eligibility).

7/05/2021

Unfinished Song (2013)

Cranky old man's lovely dying-of-cancer wife is a member of a singing group for seniors (a la Young @ Heart). When she dies, the group's young and spirited conductor kind of takes the widower under her wing, encouraging him to open up. 

It's predictable, which is not good. It also kind of feels disrespectful to the oldies in the group -- it plays their age for laughs, which felt gross. And the group's leader, played by Gemma Arterton, is no good at comedy. The lone bright spot came from Christopher Eccleston as the man's nearly estranged son.

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