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Absolutely Fantastic

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

This movie is just not interesting or well done. The acting is very clunky and the whole movie feels stiff and unnatural. I was actually pretty appalled at how bad it was. I figured with some of the talent, it would have it's moments. Honestly, it did not. It is hard to watch Kirk Douglas speaking with his voice after his stroke. My Dad has had two strokes so I know how hard it is to get your speech back, but for me with the lackluster script and then his altered speech and of course his face is changed too from his stroke, it was difficult to see. I am sure most people would not want to bring this up to be sensitive, but everyone is thinking it. It is sad to watch this movie with Michael Douglas's son Cameron, who is in jail for drugs until 2018, and then to know his stepbrother died in 2004 from a drug overdose. Roger Ebert said if they just made a movie based on their real lives, it would of been a heck of a movie.

This is a movie about fathers and sons - It's ALL relative, in fact, and not just the male kind. It deals with the importance of keeping in touch and coming closer together before death or ideals conspire to separate you permanently.It would be foolish to deny that it has a pedestrian pace; but careful viewing will reveal that each member of this family is manfully wrestling in different ways with the prospect of getting old before their time, so with such preoccupations it was never going to be swinging giddily from one mishap to the next. When people get self-absorbed and need to find direction in life, they often slow down to take stock; and the deliberate manner with which the screenplay tends to unfold things is a reflection of that. Certain people were no doubt disappointed, I feel, because they might have sat down expecting a more purposeful plot - whereas what is delivered instead is really more of an episodic musing on familial bonds.For all those old-school Kirk Douglas fans who moan that here he's nothing like he was in his 'glory days' - they're right, he isn't; but the scene where his character finds his wife dead was still without doubt the most affecting in the movie. Even if he does give an "old man's" performance, he's playing an old man; so there's nothing more appropriate, is there?!"It Runs in the Family" is a slow-burner with abstract themes - it never had 'box-office hit' written all over it in the first place. There's nothing particularly revelatory to be found in this film, but it's well-written and well acted; comfortable in its own skin, and sometimes that's good enough.

There might have been a good film project in pairing Kirk Douglas and his son Michael. These two actors have been leaders in their field in more than a half century of movie making. I would have preferred a documentary-style film in which these two legendary performers reminisce about their films, their careers, and their relationship. It is obvious that Michael adores his father. Unfortunately, "It Runs in the Family" was not a showcase for these actors' talents. The film proceeded in fits and starts. Oddly, the storyline was that of a dysfunctional family with many embarrassing scenes, including one jaw-dropper with Kirk and Michael setting a boat ablaze as a funeral pyre with Kirk's dead brother aboard. They flee the scene as the police and fire department arrive. Was this sequence supposed to be funny? The cast is rounded out by such fine performers as Bernadette Peters and Audra McDonald, who are wasted in the film. In their film careers, both Kirk and Michael Douglas consistently showed good taste in their film projects. "It Runs in the Family" was a notable lapse and an unfortunate exercise in self-indulgence.

Maybe it was a mistake to cast all those Douglases in this film, as it predisposes one to view it in terms of its parallels or lack of them with the actual actors' lives. (I guess Rory Culkin was made an honorary Douglas for the occasion -- but then again his own family history more than qualifies him.) If we can leave that peculiarity out for a moment, however, I think we have here a reasonably veridical, if painful, portrayal of a very assimilated New York Jewish family that has lost its way. Or rather, the second generation lost its way, and the third generation never even had a way to lose. It's no accident that the celebration of Passover is one focal point of the movie: it is this holiday that originally bestowed the Hebrews' fundamental identity, against which the infamous Blood Libels were directed, and which has retained the last vestige of "meaning" in the lives of Jews who have abandoned almost everything else. The message of Passover is not only the historical one of emancipation from physical slavery; it is the freedom from enslavement to one's inner demons that comes with dedication to a demanding set of ethics and practices, whether in business or in personal life. That is what the Grombergs have lost, and maybe the Douglases too. The title, "It Runs In the Family" is, I believe, an indictment: it is what has CEASED to run in the family that is bringing this one down.