Robert Redford plays the grizzled, emotionally impaired rancher (he has the aggressively fictional name Einar Gilkyson) who's dismayed when his son's widow, Jean (Jennifer Lopez), whom he hasn't seen since his son's funeral, shows up on his down-at-the-heels Wyoming ranch with her 11-year-old daughter, Griff (the astute, appealing Becca Gardner), in tow. I couldn't believe half the things that came out of these characters' mouths, and yet I found myself perfectly willing to hang around until the end, just to make sure every intensely obvious character transformation took place as promised - and to find out what happened to the bear. The picture is outrageously predictable and somewhat poky, but there's also something admirably bold about the way it so adamantly demands we swallow its hokum. But today "An Unfinished Life" comes off more as a curiosity than anything. If "An Unfinished Life" had been made 10 or 12 years ago, we'd have, rightfully, dismissed it as an intensely earnest, overly manicured, run-of-the-mill melodrama. A taciturn rancher who, still bitter over the death of his son some 10 years ago, relearns how to love by getting to know the granddaughter he never knew he had a man who has been mauled by a bear, and who suffers such severe pain he can barely leave his bed, but who nonetheless defends the growly beast with convenient circle-of-life maxims like "He was just doin' what bears do." How are we, enlightened moviegoers of the new century, supposed to countenance such characters without snorting into our popcorn? No one makes movies like this anymore, for some bad reasons as well as good ones. The film’s strongest showings were in Spain with only $3.4 million.Lasse Hallström's "An Unfinished Life" is so conventional it's almost audacious. Most overseas distributors did not do much with the picture and it cumed only $10,031,892. There was a third frame expansion to 888 theaters with diminishing returns at $1,680,867 and the domestic run quietly closed with $8,586,392. The following weekend the location count expanded to 753 theaters and it pulled in a weak $2,052,066. An Unfinished Life landed unenthusiastic reviews and was booked into 139 theaters and pulled in $1,008,308. It was announced in March 2005 that the Weinsteins would be leaving Miramax on September 30 and most of the movies that were rotting in their vault were hastily thrown into release.Īfter two years on the shelf, An Unfinished Life was finally dated for a limited release on Septemwith a wide expansion set in the coming weeks. During this time, the Weinsteins asked Revolution if they would release the movie, but they declined. In 2004, the future of Bob and Harvey Weinstein remaining at Miramax was in flux as they were in negotiations with their parent Disney and many movies in their pipeline were pulled off the calendar - including An Unfinished Life. An Unfinished Life was filmed in 2003 with a planned end of year release as a potential awards contender, but Miramax pushed it back to 2004. Initial Entertainment Group sold international rights to distributors and Revolution held onto UK rights and Miramax had North American rights. The budget for An Unfinished Life was $33 million and it was financed by Miramax, Revolution Studios and Graham King’s Initial Entertainment Group. Cast: Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez, Morgan Freemanįinanced by: Miramax Revolution Studios Initial Entertainment Group.Written By: Mark Spragg, Virginia Korus Spragg.
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