Please don't spend money on this.

Fresh and Exciting

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

At Any Price was marketed as a father-son drama about their different conflicts regarding the personal careers of both characters (Dennis Quaid & Zac Efron). It is quite such but in regards, both the characters having different aspirations. Quaid wants to be a successful family farm owner while Efron wants to be a professional race car driver. The movie is rather odd is some parts and not as touching or sensitive as lead to believe. With not very likable characters (especially Dennis Quaid) who mails in another performance, and Efron's character of being disrespectful to those in his corner.The best parts about the film were those featuring Zac Efron with the racing stunts, as this was the better plot and should have been the main focus, instead of Dennis Quaid and his corrupt seed farming/internally business. Things that were in question were a scene where Efron crashes his car into a tree (accidentally- driving in a cropfied) then is sent to a hospital. Later once he comes out of the hospital, he suddenly doesn't want to become a Nascar driver anymore and decides to quit (this was leading up to a scene after he had a bad turnout at a race). Overall, it was a very weird and off switch for the character, where we first see his keen aspirations of becoming a great race car driver then one bad finish and an accident causes a quit of his dream.The ending last 20 minutes or so (once his character 'accidentally' kills the rival) is quite something. The thought process and characters of both Quaid and Efron didn't seem as real people, and in the very end, the truth was never set free by either character. The film just ends. Poor ending but it was understood as the writers possibly didn't want to drag on. Though another 10-15 minutes could have worked. All together, At Any Price is quite a forgettable drama with little to nothing to prove that we have not seen before.

You will have to watch this one it is a family story. From a family perspective. But it's just not your family. You get to see how truly hollow some people are. How they are just a fine film or puff of something attached to a smile floating through a room just trying to get through another day. Dennis Quaid plays that hollow puff of a man, and he plays him well. There are so many layers to this family that you will be taken to some surprising places. I Enjoyed this movie quite a bit, though the people in it need to be smacked awake, the player playing them are all top notch, and the production is very clean, and never feels cheap, just down to earth, and from the perspective of real people. You don't need my recommendation, but you have it for this movie, and I know you will be glad you spent a couple of hours with the Whipples.

I didn't have anything to watch so I went to Video on Demand, that was the worst mistake I have ever made. First of all, the trailers show the whole movie that had any good parts. I was completely grossed out by Dennis Quaid getting it on with a girl more than half his age. The noises...OMG it took about 3 weeks to get that thought out of my head. Then it was so unbelievable when Zac Efron's character killed someone and they just buried the body and went on with their lives. For real? It reminded me of 'Unfaithful' where Richard Gere's character hits the guy and he is dead and he hides his body. The same concept. It was short, but that was probably the best thing about it. The way it ended was just plain stupid. No one came clean about the death, they just brushed it off. Stupid movie.

AT ANY PRICE (dir. Ramin Bahrani) If the film had just developed a single tangent, such as the troubled relationship between a father and son without all the other thematic distractions, it might have worked. Dennis Quaid turns in an exceptional performance as a GMO mega-farmer whose family has owned the land for four generations, yet no one in his family seems the slightest bit interested in continuing in the business of farming. However, because so many story angles are opened up and explored, the film loses focus. There's the story of the two sons- one is off climbing mountains in South America while the other aspires to excel on the NASCAR circuit, and then there is the sub-plot of the father's questionable dealings with genetically modified crop seeds, his sexual infidelity with one of his old high school cheerleader pals (by the way, they don't appear to have attended high school within two decades of each other), and the 'professional' relationship with his youngest son's teen-aged girlfriend (possibly the brightest point of the film). And finally there's that unfortunate second degree homicide that pops up out of the blue. It seems that the intent was to produce a film where the whole was greater than the sum of its parts, but AT ANY PRICE flounders and struggles with a handful of disparate elements that don't add up to much of anything except a credible performance by Dennis Quaid. As Archie Bell and The Drells used to say, 'Do The Tighten Up!'