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This new Billy Crystal movie will have you laughing out loud, celebrating a bat mitzvah and the importance of family, watching a friendship flourish and just experiencing life's touching moments and the gamut of human emotions. A good heartwarming story, part comedy, part drama, part musical, well acted and waiting to be enjoyed. Don't miss this film.

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.

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.

This is the kind of movie "the rest of us" have been waiting for--no CGI, no auteur sensibilities--just good story telling with tons of belly laughs. We were pleasantly surprised at the depth of Crystal's performance. Both of us immediately thought Oscar Worthy. And, who doesn't love Tiffany Haddish?!?!?!?!