One Moment

Lovely family movie. Contemporary family issues filled this realistic plot and had me squirming in discomfort, laughing and crying. When a movie causes me to experience a wide range of emotions and see my own family while being challenged to predict the ending, I like it. Also there were good life lessons embedded in the film. I better for having spent my time with One Moment.

I guess I'm the only person here who thought that all the acting - apart from Danny Aiello, who was adequate - was wooden, hollow and unconvincing. I felt like I was watching extras doing a run-through before the real actors came to work. Characters were stereotypes (gay daughter, failure daughter, clueless son, ignorant, phone-addicted teen with no discretion), and there was no energy among the cast. Throughout I kept re-casting the film in my head, trying to imagine if the script was good enough that excellent actors could have made it work. Nope. It's predictable; no dramatic arc, contrived.

Of humour over good old susbenders dementialated construtions, a role that mr aiello take to the limit. Surprised how old he's become he is doing an awesome kick her,with a cast that consists of many tvseriestars, and they do not crap around like houndogers, and play their parts very well. Its just that the story is so unoriginal and worn out over the years, and the budget lowers the production quality so just dont blame the actors cause they do well.

A smile here and a giggle there made the grumpy old man watch till the end, its nice but not a blockbuster.

Suppose it's an okay movie if you're into the old people are problems, not actual people way of thinking.

A cautionary tale to the young. The end will get here, prepare yourself for old age. Don't leave your future in the hands of your indecisive, cowardly kids.

That's assuming you will have the privilege of getting old, a thing denied to many.

If you are a caregiver; a parent; or you're missing a parent; or if you're from a large family; from an Irish family; from a large, Irish Catholic family; from the LGBT community; from a politically divided family...frankly, everyone could watch ONE MOMENT and take away something special.

I admit I may have been hesitant to watch ONE MOMENT... because I have been going through this 'change of life'/caregiving situation with my own parents.

I am SO GLAD my sisters and I watched it.

We literally laughed out loud at some scenes and cried (but pretended we were wiping things out of our eyes) for others. This two-hour movie took us 3 hours to watch because we kept stopping and remembering those scenes from our own lives....

The themes of family dynamics, aging and generation gaps, support (or, sometimes, lack thereof) of siblings, ACCEPTANCE and choices in life are universal and touch each and everyone of us.

I PROMISE you won't be disappointed and you will not see the ending you expect....