A Vida é Agora

Billy Crystal is great, Tiffany Haddish shows an incredible future as an actor, she is divine in this heart wrenching movie. I am almost exactly the same age as Billy Crystal and this really hit home for me, as well as my relationship with my kids. Lots of kleenex required.

This is a sweet and somewhat sad story of a man played by Billy Crystal who is in the earlier stages of dementia, mourning the loss of his wife, and forming a friendship with a woman played by Tiffany Haddish. The friendship is really sweet and there are nice moments of humor interspersed with the sadder stuff. His grief for and connection to his late wife is the most moving of all. Have tissues on hand.

Here Today is a modernized throwback movie. It's typical Billy Crystal and that just fine. It's a nice combination of comedy and drama, with just a couple of big laughs, numerous chuckles and tearjerker drama. The update is Tiffany Haddish (calling to mind Billy's team-up with Gregory Hines) who is great. There's a real chemistry between Billy and Tiffany and that makes it all more fun. It's old fashioned Hollywood and it was a very good time!

This was a great movie! It's not giving away anything to say that you will laugh, cry, and grow to love these characters over the two hours. The comedy and classic Billy Crystal one-liners we're the perfect balance to the struggles of an aging gentleman trying to maintain the life he has built over his 40 year career. Tiffany Haddish, in previous roles, can come off as an over the top, stereotypically black-woman-with-an-attitude. But in this movie she plays the perfect new-age comedy yin to Crystals's tried and true 80s/90s classic comedy yang. My wife, I, and the other couple we watched this movie thoroughly enjoyed it and I think you will too.

You know who doesn't like this? Jaded critics who think an entertaining movie is mediocre because of things like pacing, or a minor plot hole and assume that such things ruin a good time. Go see it. Bring tissues.