I rarely to never leave a movie feeling wowed. This movie was an exception; this was such a lovely and moving film. The characters were hauntingly beautiful as was there love story, filled with so much history that slowly unfolds seamlessly throughout the film. This movie made me laugh, and evoked so many other feelings. The critics interestingly enough missed the gem that this movie is.

My wife and I are 73 and neither of us has Alzheimer's or cancer; however, we have experienced these diseases in our immediate family. I am a retired, forgetful university professor which made the movie even more engaging! While this movie is probably not worthy of an Oscar nomination, it was very enjoyable and worth the time to watch. Dame Judy Dench and Donald Southerland gave very credible, wonderful and warming interpretations of the characters as would be expected. We very much enjoyed the movie and would recommend it to older adults.

STILL ALICE was a film with something profound to say about Alzheimer's and suicide. This film is facile and fatuous compared with that one. The critics raved about the mercy killing of the paraplegic in MILLION DOLLAR BABY. Handicapped access laws had been the bane of hotelier Clint Eastwood's existence. That is why he made a film glorifying offing the wheel chair handicapped, whom he loathed. Suicide can be the answer to everything and anything, I suppose....

Fugitive, 70-something grey nomads John (Sutherland) and Ella (Mirren) dust off their old Winnebago for one last trip, to visit the Florida Keys and the home of Ernest Hemingway. John is a retired literary professor and Ella has always wanted to take him there. Their disappearance scares the hell out of their grownup kids who, while pleading with them on the phone to come home, vacillate between respecting their wishes and calling the cops on their irresponsible parents. THE LEISURE SEEKER is an at times funny, at times poignant, perhaps even confronting but also very real tale of what's waiting for us all as we near the end of our respective journeys. The film is a study of 'memento mori' and a pretty honest exploration of the gradually diminishing range of options as age and failing health catches up and overtakes even those not quite ready to call it a day.Although it evoked a strong emotional response from the reviewing audience, it didn't feel either glib or particularly dark or depressing. Rather, it played as the celebration of a family's unembellished life and their enduring and at times conflicted love for one another.