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

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The movie is surprisingly subdued in its pacing, its characterizations, and its go-for-broke sensibilities.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.