I'll See You in My Dreams (2015)

But I got to admit, I did not know she had it in the first place.

Blythe Danner for me is usually recognized as the very attractive significant other when older actors want to pretend on screen that they are interested in age appropriate women.

But Danner is a very sexy, charming woman and she gets to show all of this in her leading role in this film. It's a strangely realistic look at what romance looks like in those golden years with Sam Elliot as Danner's love interest, a man who proves he still got the heat himself at his advanced aged.

Also liked seeing Rhea Perlman in the flick as one of Danner's aging friends in the movie. She plays a woman living in a senor citizens home, which I found hard to swallow. She showed far too much energy on the screen.

It's a good romantic comedy for any age but a lot more than what it's sold to be. For the most part, it's about a woman who's just going through a mood and this can happy to anyone at any age.

Recommend.

Fmovies: Quietness, Simplicity (Love it so much!)

It's different,

I'm in 22, but when the movie started I was there! as if in 70 of my age, which I didn't know if I'll reach, I believe that I lived the moment somehow, the most thing I noticed and loved it in this movie is the quietness and Simplicity.. I was smiling in the lots of scenes.

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Wonderful Movie Without A Doubt.

9/10

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... is old age. Even though it is the most powerful movie villain of them all and takes many of our favorite actors away before their time.

This film is mainly for fans of Ms. Danner. Wait. Let me explain. Usually when a reviewer makes such a comment it is a negative. No it is not. That is this reviewer's heartfelt view and it is a fair one.

As a film, as a movie competing with 100s of 1000s of other movies for pride of place in the minds of viewers present and future, this film is simply OK.

It is a fairly well-paced and fairly authentic look at the oddities and awkwardness of growing old (a topic of acquired taste UNLESS YOU ALREADY ARE OLD) and holds up really well until the last 30 minutes when the writer simply can no longer control himself, and a lot of strange and improbable and non-authentic things suddenly start to happen.

But as a vehicle for Ms. Danner's fans, it is a joy. For those with short memories, Ms. Danner brought a certain light and energy and beauty to her many films and frankly she was missed. Another IMDb reviewer perhaps sums it up better than we do -- "she is in every scene" the reviewer said, and the message was clear.

Meanwhile that aforementioned silent villain moves on. For students of film -- and of Life -- there is a short scene with Max Gail. Not only was he a major TV star in his day, but he was considered so macho that they used him for shaving commercials (which requires EXTRA testosterone.) I did not recognize him at all.

I'll See You in My Dreams fmovies. If you cannot accept the idea that a somewhat eccentric old lady would name a male dog "Hazel," forget this movie. You are too much a literalist to understand anything except the surface story, which won't make sense or be very interesting.

Rat: A *thing* or "significant emotional event" that forces a person out of her comfort zone, i.e., the rut she has got into in retirement. Or rather than a "rut," is it her "grove?" Don't think of the rat as merely a black rodent. The rat is that "significant emotional event" that forces the protagonist to reexamine her life.

Home (house): Comfort zone.

Lloyd the Pool Guy: Youth - Don't think of Lloyd the Pool Guy as a male romantic interest – Lloyd is youth revisited, there to help Carol reexamine her own past and explore her values.

Bill (Sam Elliott): examination of a second life in old age to try and regain youth – offers consideration of staying active, as opposed to just sitting around watching TV and playing bingo (or bridge). Remember, opening scenes are Carol watching TV in bed and playing bridge. Bill is Romance personified. He helps Carol reexamine her feelings and emotions and whether she needs another person in her life.

"So What": Miles Davis blues song about fifteen minutes of fame, then you leave the stage and rediscover your grove.

Plot: Hazel the dog dies and leaves Carol alone. The rat chases her out of her home. She confronts Lloyd. She meets and dates Bill, who takes her out on his boat "So What." Bill dies. Lloyd sings Carol the title song and disposes of the rat. Carol gets a new dog (an old one) and, with the rat disposed of, moves back into her old home.

Speed Dating session presents an overt look at several objectionable stereotypical male personality types that a woman may face if she opens herself up to the possibility of exploring an autumn romance.

The song Lloyd sings at Karaoke night signifies that Carol is all alone with memories of her youth. The song that Carol sings says that she has cried over her lost youth, but youth can cry now because she is happy in her old age. The title song "I'll See You In My Dreams" speaks of seeing youth through dreams of the past; add "- th" to the word "You" throughout the song.

When Carol returns to the bar near the end of the movie, Karaoke is not available (no second chance) and she first orders the new drink she was introduced to the first time at the bar, but then she changes her mind and opts for the old drink she shared with "Youth" (Lloyd) when examining their relationship in song through karaoke during their earlier visit to the bar.

On display on Carol's mantle at the end after she has found her grove again are pictures from her youth, her dead husband's ashes, Hazel's ashes, and one of Bill's cigars, not reduced to ashes. There are many more metaphors. If you look for them, you will find them.

Don't feel sorry for Carol. Rather, rejoice in the happy fact that she has reexamined her life (think Socrates: "The unexamined life is not worth living"). In the end, Carol has examined her life and decided the route she wants to follow, her groove, is living with an old dog, not a man, and she enjoys watching TV and playing bridge with her friends. Do not be sad if her decision does not mirror yours. Just follow her lead and reexamine your own life, then live it the way y

Most of the other reviews of this film which I read were negative. There is no way to tell the age of those reviewers, but my age is 68. I like this movie, which was touching but not maudlin. It's true to life to me. My wife is still living, and I don't have a big enough retirement savings account to buy a boat and a Cadillac. But we are fortunate enough to have our only child in the same city, and our only grandson (and very likely the only one there will ever be) there also, so we are already ahead of Bill and Carol. But you have to be in old age to appreciate this story. If one of us dies, what will the other do? Would we consider remarriage? How would you find somebody, if you wanted to? If one of our beloved pets dies, what will we do? Do we want to start with another one, even an older one which might die before we do? Do we go to a retirement facility or keep the too-large house? Old age is generally not exciting, even if you have enough money to eat and buy medicine, and it's little things where you find happiness (even if it is TV or golf). This was intentionally a low-key story, which didn't answer any of the questions it raised. We only know tiny tidbits about Carol, but nobody else. Where did Bill come from, other than Dallas? What does Carol's daughter do, and where does she live, and why haven't they seen each other more often? You can draw you own conclusions or just accept this little snippet of Carol's life and move on, as she will, but to what we don't know. It's life, where we come into contact with people but know nothing about them. And nobody knows what will happen tomorrow. If you are lucky enough to have a tomorrow.

Good, simple, often funny movie concerned with the serious subject of just what is left of value in a life that is much closer to the end than to the beginning, and what we might do with that remaining value. Blythe Danner, June Squibb, Rhea Perlman, Mary Kay Place, Sam Elliott, and Martin Starr are the leads, with Danner the star as Carol, a widow living out her very comfortable but ordinary L.A. days at home, except for her bridge and golf games with her 3 funny buddies at the local retirement center. Then, first came a personal loss, then came an odd but valued friendship with her young pool cleaner, then a loss that truly moved her to change the way she saw and lived life.

The director kept things light and not too serious about the issues with aging until that loss that changed things forever for Carol, temporarily at first, but permanently later, as she then became more accepting of doing things with more meaning and friendly human relationships in her remaining years. Sad in spots, funny in most, but always meaningful, with sound advice for all of us as we age.

What I took away from this story was that we all need to spend serious time reviewing our lives when we get to Carol's age, and question if we are using our limited time wisely and in our own best interests, and then make the right changes. We owe that to ourselves, and to our friends and loved ones. Just like Carol. In that way, the story was like a good friend.