 | 映画原題: An Unfinished Life [ 映画邦題:アンフィニッシュド・ライフ ] |  | | |  |  |  |  |
アンフィニッシュド・ライフ:2006年 全国ロードショー:An Unfinished Life Roadshow 
ジーン(ジェニファー・ロペス)は暴力亭主ロイに耐え切れなくなり、11歳の娘グリフを連れて家出する。頼るあてのないジーンは、事故死した前夫グリフィン(グリフの実父)の父で、牧畜を営むアイナー(ロバート・レッドフォード)を訪ねる。グリフィンの事故死の原因がジーンにあったため、アイナーはずっとジーンを許す事ができないでいたが、それでも二人に当座の宿を提供する。こうしてジーン、グリフ、アイナー、そしてアイナーの旧来の友人であり、ずっとアイナーの牧場で暮らしてきたミッチ(モーガン・フリーマン)による共同生活が始まる。アイナーとジーンの間には深い溝があったが、グリフ、そしてミッチを媒介にして、家族は徐々に再生へと向かう・・。(GAGA USEN:BRAND NEW LINE UP)
|  |  |  |  | | | |  |  | |  | An Unfinished Life : Hollywood Cinema Director : シネマ作品監督紹介 |  | An Unfinished Life : Hollywood Actor [CAST・CREW] : 出演ハリウッド俳優(男優・女優・声優)&ミュージシャン・アーティスト紹介 |
 | An Unfinished Life : 現地ハリウッド市民の評価 : 英語批評版 : Native Evaluation |  |  |  |  | A Family Story / 2005-11-06
The movie was great. It speaks of love thru friendship and family. I want this movie in my private library. |  |  |  |  | | | |  |  |  |  | Coming To Terms With Our Mortality. / 2005-09-24
This film, produced by Alan Ladd, Jr., was filmed in Wyoming with wild animals as well as ranch horses and one cow, lots of cats. Robert Redford was the unforgiving rancher who had lost everything when his son died almost twelve years earlier. His wife left him because he sank into a bout of drunkenness, and he was unable to help his hired man who was badly mauled by a giant bear. His life had basically come to an end, until his dead son's widow with his eleven-year old granddaughter, played marvelously by Becca Gardner, returned home "on the range" fleeing an abusive man in Iowa. Like Jett Williams, the girl was born after the death of her dad and did not know until they were on the bus that she even had a granddad. They'd been on the curvy roads on the way to the Stampede show to take part when there was the tragic car accident, for which the father could never forgive or forget. He spent a lot of time sitting at his son's grave and having a one-way conversation. He tried to keep living, but just could not let the dead go. My son, Zach, is having that same thing to deal with now that the numbness of Tristan's car accident had faded and the pain is enormous for the whole family. Griffin's death had caused them all to have 'an unfinished life,' particularly the grieving father who died slowly every day. He milked one cow as he had sold all the stock to have enough to keep the ranch, where the son is buried. He has the memories which he could not erase. Griffin had wanted a life of his own, which ended much too soon. They all felt guilt over his loss, as I did after Tristan died in April when I thought I was going to. He mourned for a life he thought he should have had, but they soon learned that there is a reason for everything. Josh Lucas, with his blue eyes, looked like Zach used to as a young high school lad. He was good as the sheriff who had an affair with the girl's mom, Jennifer Lopez. A weak man is one who runs after a woman who doesn't want her. Gary, the abusive 'boyfriend,' finds them and starts his violent streak again but this time it backfires on him, and he is on his way out of town on a bus, this time. The bear, played by Bart the Bear, has a rough time caged up in a sort of zoo, one buffalo, some llamas, two wolves, and an elephant. He is sprung from his prison by the rancher and his accomplice, who lets the gears shift on the old Mercury truck and he ends up in the hospital. She is distraught as she tries to come to terms with her guilt, and explains that it was an accident. That is what the widow had told her father-in-law about the time his son died, because it was a freak accident. The hired man is hanging on by a mere string as his pain is almost unbearable, but he had asked that the bear be let free to roam. It finds him and he shows no fear, and tells it to just keep going. He says all he ever wanted was to be a cowboy. In the end, everything is forgiven. The interpersonal relationships drag on as he has to face the truth when he was asked, "Did it ever occur to you that everything can be replaced," and that others get dealt a bad hand sometimes, too. Everyone needs to feel loved, thus the affair which the whole town knows about. She felt that she should have died in place of her husband and wished that moment she fell asleep at the wheel had never happened. She lashed out with words instead of violence as that is what she had been dealt. The "meow" at the end was a fitting tribute to the nameless cats he kept at the barn. The two old men asked each other, "Do the dead care about our lives? They forgive us our sins." Each person has realized his inadequacies, and that no one is perfect. They are asked to live there and give the girl a home where she belongs.
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I found it to be a wonderful family film. It's hard to believe that this was Becca Gardners first film as she was just as good as the famous co-stars who appeared with her. |  |  |  |  | | | |  |  |  |  | Predictable...yet satisfying / 2005-09-15
Morgan Freeman co-starring in a tear-jerker with a fellow crusty old actor and a younger starlet...Hmm, haven't we been here before? Yet the spare plot, rural setting and the actors' interaction make AN UNFINISHED LIFE ultimately satisfying. Add in Becca Gardner and Camryn Manheim and you've got the perfect movie for a cup of hot chocolate on a rainy afternoon. Einar (Redford, in one of his best performances) is a bitter, struggling, semi-retired rancher who shuttles between caring for his injured friend Mitch (Freeman) and occaisional trips into the nearby town. I like the rural dynamics at work here - the stereotype of the independant, "needing nobody" farmer shattered (and defined) by his relationship with such characters as the law-bending Sheriff and the diner owner (Manheim). He needs this tiny hamlet as much as they need him. Of course, this theme of interdependance carries through with Mitch's concern for the grizzly bear that mauled him, and the arrival of Einar's daughter-in-law and Griff, her daughter by Einar's dead son. Themes of blame and forgiveness are worked out as Einar forges a relationship with the granddaughter he never knew he had. As he visits his son's grave on the property we see his inner struggles and ultimately a sort of redemption. If you liked the director's past films CHOCOLAT and THE SHIPPING NEWS, then you'll appreciate this latest effort.... |  |  |  |  | | | |  |  |  |  | An Unfinished Movie / 2005-09-14
"An Unfinished Life" is a seriously flawed film. A Lasse Hallstrom film is always either a hit or a miss. On the one hand you have great films like "The Cider House Rules" and "My Life as a Dog." On the other hand you have the shamefully boring "The Shipping News" and the terribly over-rated "Chocolat" The first glaring flaw I noticed in a film that would turn out to be replete with them was the irritating, intrusive, and repetitive score. The second was the pathetic script that almost redefines the term "heavy-handed." Exhibit A: the use of the bear as a clumsy and obvious example of the need for forgiveness. Exhibit B: the use of equally clumsy dialogue to reinforce the supposed wisdom imparted by devices such as the above. Robert Redford turns in one of his most wooden and clichテゥ-ridden performances to date. The only thing that would have made his character more of a cowboy stereotype would have been if he used the phrase "I reckon." (I wouldn't have put it past the screenwriters). To make matters worse, the screenwriters actually openly acknowledge that they've created a cookie-cutter character by having another character (whom Redford is running out of town at gunpoint) remark that Redford has seen to many Westerns, to which Redford replies: "that doesn't exactly work in your favor". The only actor that gives a more lackluster portrayal than Redford is Jennifer Lopez, who would deserve banishment from the entire acting profession, had it not been for one good performance in "The Cell." Although I cannot justify her total banishment I would ask that we never again be subjected to her version of a battered woman. I had quite enough of that in the aptly titled "Enough." In the final analysis there are only two reasons to see this film. One is to witness Morgan Freeman doing what he does best, despite the fact that there is little variation here from anything he's done that was even remotely similar. The second is to see the astonishing debut performance of young Becca Gardner who completely outshines her veteran cast mates. It takes an especially skilled actress to convey weathered innocence. Not only does Gardner succeed, she makes it look absolutely effortless. |  |  |  |  | | | |  |  | | |