I found this one on Netflix streaming movies. A Sundance product, it is very quirky, in a way that I really enjoy. I like this movie a lot.
Lisa Kudrow is Claire Dunn, a doctor, and Jeff Daniels is her husband, Richard Dunn, a writer. With one book out of the way, he is hopelessly stuck. So he moves to a little rustic house near the ocean in Montauk, to be inspired to write a novel with an extinct bird, last seen on Long Island, as the subject. Claire comes to visit him periodically and she, with a lucrative career as a vascular surgeon, expects Richard to be productive, to get on with writing his book.
But Richard has never completely grown up. He has an imaginary friend, Ryan Reynolds as Captain Excellent, with short bleached blond hair and always wearing his blue and red suit, not unlike how Superman appears. His imaginary friend is alternately a blessing and a nuisance. But he still can't get started writing. "I don't know what to do with my hands."
Local high school girl Emma Stone as Abby gets Richard's attention. Awkwardly he asks her if she can babysit, even though he has no children. She shows up, isn't too shocked that there is no child to sit, she says "I have some homework I need to do." But as he goes away for 3 hours, doing nothing in particular, she gathers whatever ingredients and vegetables she can find in his place and makes a pot of soup. He likes the soup, but when she tells him her babysitting fee is $12 per hour, he has just bought a $36 dollar pot of soup.
This starts the unfolding of the story which basically is Richard and Abby helping each other get over some issues, and get on with their lives. They become friends, all innocent, but they form a bond that neither of them had experienced before.
Good movie.
SPOILERS: The other key character is Abby's friend, Kieran Culkin as Christopher. He almost seems to be stalking her, she doesn't seem bothered by his presence. Near the end Christopher and Captain Excellent and standing next to each other, and communicate with each other. Christopher is Abby's imaginary friend, since the time when Abby and her twin sister were swimming in the ocean, Abby came back to shore, her twin drowned. As the story is wrapping up Richard sends Captain Excellent away, he doesn't need him anymore, and Abby comes back to her room to find Christoper dead, hanging from her ceiling, symbolic that she didn't need him anymore.
Lisa Kudrow is Claire Dunn, a doctor, and Jeff Daniels is her husband, Richard Dunn, a writer. With one book out of the way, he is hopelessly stuck. So he moves to a little rustic house near the ocean in Montauk, to be inspired to write a novel with an extinct bird, last seen on Long Island, as the subject. Claire comes to visit him periodically and she, with a lucrative career as a vascular surgeon, expects Richard to be productive, to get on with writing his book.
But Richard has never completely grown up. He has an imaginary friend, Ryan Reynolds as Captain Excellent, with short bleached blond hair and always wearing his blue and red suit, not unlike how Superman appears. His imaginary friend is alternately a blessing and a nuisance. But he still can't get started writing. "I don't know what to do with my hands."
Local high school girl Emma Stone as Abby gets Richard's attention. Awkwardly he asks her if she can babysit, even though he has no children. She shows up, isn't too shocked that there is no child to sit, she says "I have some homework I need to do." But as he goes away for 3 hours, doing nothing in particular, she gathers whatever ingredients and vegetables she can find in his place and makes a pot of soup. He likes the soup, but when she tells him her babysitting fee is $12 per hour, he has just bought a $36 dollar pot of soup.
This starts the unfolding of the story which basically is Richard and Abby helping each other get over some issues, and get on with their lives. They become friends, all innocent, but they form a bond that neither of them had experienced before.
Good movie.
SPOILERS: The other key character is Abby's friend, Kieran Culkin as Christopher. He almost seems to be stalking her, she doesn't seem bothered by his presence. Near the end Christopher and Captain Excellent and standing next to each other, and communicate with each other. Christopher is Abby's imaginary friend, since the time when Abby and her twin sister were swimming in the ocean, Abby came back to shore, her twin drowned. As the story is wrapping up Richard sends Captain Excellent away, he doesn't need him anymore, and Abby comes back to her room to find Christoper dead, hanging from her ceiling, symbolic that she didn't need him anymore.