My wife and I watched this at home via Netflix streaming movies.
Al Pacino plays the title role as Mr Manglehorn. He is a busy locksmith in this fictitious Texas town, filmed in and around Austin, Texas. He has an obsession, it has been going on for years, writing letters to his Clara back East. He never hears back, mostly the letters get returned for inability to deliver.
It isn't made clear if Clara is in fact still alive, it seemed to me she must be deceased. But years earlier Manglehorn threw away his chances for a lasting relationship with Clara, who we only see in a few old photos, and this has been eating at him for all those years, making it virtually impossible for him to form any genuine relationships.
So this movie is about that, can Manglehorn somehow get past all this in his twilight years? Good as his current interest is Holly Hunter as Dawn. She is a teller at the local bank and when Manglehorn goes to deposit his money he always waits to be served by her. Somewhat surprisingly she has taken an interest in this unkempt, often gruff, older man. In a funny scene when they are out on a date later she asks if he wants to take a bath with her and he doesn't know how to respond so he changes the subject.
Chris Messina is good in a small role as Manglehorn's somewhat estranged son Jacob, a successful financial professional. Overall an interesting, sometimes quirky character study.
Al Pacino plays the title role as Mr Manglehorn. He is a busy locksmith in this fictitious Texas town, filmed in and around Austin, Texas. He has an obsession, it has been going on for years, writing letters to his Clara back East. He never hears back, mostly the letters get returned for inability to deliver.
It isn't made clear if Clara is in fact still alive, it seemed to me she must be deceased. But years earlier Manglehorn threw away his chances for a lasting relationship with Clara, who we only see in a few old photos, and this has been eating at him for all those years, making it virtually impossible for him to form any genuine relationships.
So this movie is about that, can Manglehorn somehow get past all this in his twilight years? Good as his current interest is Holly Hunter as Dawn. She is a teller at the local bank and when Manglehorn goes to deposit his money he always waits to be served by her. Somewhat surprisingly she has taken an interest in this unkempt, often gruff, older man. In a funny scene when they are out on a date later she asks if he wants to take a bath with her and he doesn't know how to respond so he changes the subject.
Chris Messina is good in a small role as Manglehorn's somewhat estranged son Jacob, a successful financial professional. Overall an interesting, sometimes quirky character study.