Same Kind of Different as Me
October. 20,2017 PG-13International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to his wife, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the journey of their lives.
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Excellent adaptation.
A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
A wealthy family helps a homeless black man. Wealthy family's father is a bigot. Hours and hours of uninspired dialogue steal away time you could have spent doing anything else.
The acting is passable, it's nice to see a grown up Renee playing a grown woman. The story itself would have been interesting had it not been for the ever increasing god squad agenda. I should by now recognise it seems Greg K only does god movies but I was fooled into missing it given other cast. I find it remarkable the religious types are ok with this not so subtle pushing of their god agenda but god forbid a gay coupke kiss on a screen. I was disappointed by this movie because of this entire aspect which really makes this a fairy tale not a drama. If you want to make god agenda movies, at least be upfront about it so as not to waste the effort of those who aren't interested in your particular lifestyle choice.
The signature manifestation of a cheap production is having prolonged opening aerial scenes of a car driving on a roadway usually in a foresty setting followed by scenes viewing upward toward trees rustling in the wind. Dead giveaway. But, moving on to the substance (script), basically it was a fantastical sweetened good converts bad into good storyline. A bit stereotyped (i.e. dramatized & admitted so in credits) of a black angry homeless person w/racially abusive growing up experiences within a cotton plantation setting and the always present white slave owners. However, to the rescue is an upper middle class white couple volunteering, where else, soup kitchen (a misnomer as food fare has improved the past decades especially w/donations at food banks). A sort of Union Gospel shelter to the rescue. Acting was overdramatic in both directions overly aggressive and overly submissive, but got the point across. Zellweger could convert Satin w/the calm sweetness of her voice alone. Not overly preachy, and had the potential to be so. The helping the homeless cause in America is valuable, but relative to the billion people worldwide who live daily w/debilitating disease, no medical care, hunger, poor/no sanitation, no potable H2O, little/no shelter, rape, abuse, very short life spans, murders based on religion or gender - it pales.
This would've been a good movie, with a good storyline, but the it fails in the technical aspects that for one Djimon Hounsou, who played Denver is only 54 and playing a character that would have to be pushing 90, and doing so without any makeup to show that age, was very distracting & just detracted from making the whole movie believable. Morgan Freeman, or maybe Garret Morris would have been better for the role. Secondly, Debbie, who finds she has cancer, never undergoes any treatment, or none that the viewer is made aware, so no hair loss or sickness from chemo, or even any reference to it or to possibly her declining treatment? IDK, it's not addressed in the film at all. She just lives awhile, seemingly perfectly healthy, then dies.