I found this on Netflix streaming movies. A rather small movie by a little-known writer-director but the story is very realistic and impactful. Better than its rather low rating would indicate.
Robin Tunney is 30-something Emmie, living and working in Brooklyn. She has her own pet business, grooming, walking, etc and two slackers working for her. One day she comes home in an amorous mood and her husband dismisses her, something about cleanliness and smelling of her pets. In truth she had a valid reason for feeling rejected.
But she reacts by packing a bag and telling no one drives back home to Portland, Maine. In the back of her mind was her old boyfriend, still back home, Adam Scott as underachiever Jason, an artist who specialized in frogs and drawings with frog themes. Plus he was a waiter in a family-friendly restaurant, the kind where all the waiters gather around and sing happy birthday to you if it is your day. Emmie and Jason had never "broken up", she just moved away and got married.
So much of the story is to see if Emmie can sort out her issues, and to see if maybe she leaves her marriage to finally be with Jason, her soul-mate.
There is a key scene with Emmie and her dad, played by William Sadler. He is telling her about the two kinds of military missiles he fought with, the ballistic missile that once you shoot it lands on a spot, even if the target has moved. The other kind can constantly adjust its trajectory to keep the target in view. Without explaining it the message was "don't be a ballistic missile" in life, things change and you have to adjust with changes.
Good movie, genuine themes, well done.
SPOILERS: When it seemed that Emmie would be successfully wooed by Jason, and meets him at their old spot, complete with rose petals and candles, she walked up to him, they stood face to face, ready to kiss for the first time in years, but she tells him "We have to break up", and that allowed her, reminded by a video of her engagement those years ago, what her life was really about, and she returned to Brooklyn.
Robin Tunney is 30-something Emmie, living and working in Brooklyn. She has her own pet business, grooming, walking, etc and two slackers working for her. One day she comes home in an amorous mood and her husband dismisses her, something about cleanliness and smelling of her pets. In truth she had a valid reason for feeling rejected.
But she reacts by packing a bag and telling no one drives back home to Portland, Maine. In the back of her mind was her old boyfriend, still back home, Adam Scott as underachiever Jason, an artist who specialized in frogs and drawings with frog themes. Plus he was a waiter in a family-friendly restaurant, the kind where all the waiters gather around and sing happy birthday to you if it is your day. Emmie and Jason had never "broken up", she just moved away and got married.
So much of the story is to see if Emmie can sort out her issues, and to see if maybe she leaves her marriage to finally be with Jason, her soul-mate.
There is a key scene with Emmie and her dad, played by William Sadler. He is telling her about the two kinds of military missiles he fought with, the ballistic missile that once you shoot it lands on a spot, even if the target has moved. The other kind can constantly adjust its trajectory to keep the target in view. Without explaining it the message was "don't be a ballistic missile" in life, things change and you have to adjust with changes.
Good movie, genuine themes, well done.
SPOILERS: When it seemed that Emmie would be successfully wooed by Jason, and meets him at their old spot, complete with rose petals and candles, she walked up to him, they stood face to face, ready to kiss for the first time in years, but she tells him "We have to break up", and that allowed her, reminded by a video of her engagement those years ago, what her life was really about, and she returned to Brooklyn.