Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

This heartbreaking drama stars Vera Farmiga as Sophie Lee, a woman utterly devoted to her upper-crust Korean Catholic husband Andrew(David McInnis)that finds herself in a depressive situation; when she finds she's unable to get pregnant. This predicament seems to cause dishonor toward her husband and Sophie feels her marriage is in grave danger. She decides to entertain an affair with a Korean immigrant(Jung-woo Ha). She is willing to pay the young man for his services; with even a bigger payday upon her pregnancy. This fateful decision soon threatens to bring about emotional and mental anxiety nearing total despair.The story line is touching, but I was not so happy with Farmiga's hairstyle and wardrobe. Why make such a beautiful woman appear so bland? Other players include: Marceline Hugot, Kari Swenson Riley, Joseph Y. Kim and Shirley Roeca.

Long story short: Sophie and her husband Andrew can't have children so Sophie, on her own and without saying anything to her husband, decides to start banging Jihah, a Korean man who looks somewhat similar to her husband. It's an interesting concept, and the film was rolling along -- right up to the point that Sophie announces she's pregnant. That's when things began to head south. And I REALLY started hating this film the minute pregnant Sophie goes back to have sex with her surrogate turkey baster. I was actually yelling at the screen: "Don't do it, Sophie. Don't do it". (Needless to say, she didn't listen, and went ahead and did it.) That in and of itself might not have been so bad, if she at least had had the integrity to be honest with her husband. (You know...the person she was SUPPOSEDLY doing all this for in the first place.) But no...she lied. And cheated. And continued to lie and cheat throughout the rest of the film -- all the while telling her surrogate turkey baster how much she loved her husband. She even goes so far as to demand from her surrogate turkey baster that he tell her that: "This baby is his (her husband's). Please tell me this baby is his."It's an interesting film. The acting was excellent, especially Vera Farmiga as Sophie. But the message is all wrong. Sophie is not any sort of a victim or a hero; she's just a plain old fashioned run of the mill ho. So when it comes to the end, which focuses exclusively on whether or not Sophie is now happy, the only emotional response I felt at that point was disdain.

Vera Farmiga plays an affluent woman whose life and marriage is unraveling. She and her Korean husband have been trying without success to get pregnant. Her suicidal husband has given up on the idea, but it's become an obsession with her, the one thing that will fix everything that's broken. She makes a proposition to a young Korean immigrant -- she will pay him $300 in cash every time they have sex, with an additional $30,000 in cash if she conceives.I had my doubts before watching this film that the screenplay would be able to make this premise plausible, but it does. It sets things up in such a way that they play out honestly, without feeling overly manipulated by the hands of a screenwriter or director. It helps tremendously that Farmiga gives such a good performance -- you have to really understand her character if the movie is going to make any sense, and we do, thanks to Farmiga's commitment to the role.Though ambiguous, the ending suggests a happy ending that DID feel implausible to me. But the rest of the movie is such a downer that I actually didn't mind it, because I just wanted something positive to happen to this poor woman.Grade: B+

I thought Never Forever despite it's kooky title was pretty effective in it's main drive of the story - Romance. To call it predictable would be putting it mildly. Early on, the story corners itself into a very well-trodden seen before aspect. But that doesn't mean it's dull. I quite enjoyed especially Verma Farmiga and Jung-Woo Ha in their romance - one more out of loneliness. They both looked lost, but came together well. The conflict and circumstances involved unfortunately feels forced and contrived - luckily the actors generally lift up the material. I especially enjoyed the nuances of the sexuality of the affair - starting as a business but becoming something more primal when emotions begin to overcome rationality. The director does a good job of implicating this and giving us plenty of evidence to convince us. We can see, understand, and feel their raw emotions. Pretty good entertainment for the romance and affair itself.