From the start, I felt Dylan. His slow, lonely, methodical life was sad to see. Then, he was given the gift of relationships. Throughout the movie, we were reminded that we were created to touch and interact with others. In our social media-techno world, it is easy to forget the beauty of letters and dinners and boat rides and meaningful conversation while strolling.
Wendell, Jurnee and Joanne are fine actors and their talents were on display. At times, the dialogue was not the best. However, it worth sticking around until the end.
Plot summary
Dylan Derringer, a lonely dentist in Florida, is confronted by a figure from the past bringing news that sends him on an eventful and ultimately life-altering journey of discovery.
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December 02, 2018 at 06:06 AM
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A lovely movie
flip it and reverse it
Quiet Florida dentist Dylan Derringer (Wendell Pierce) spends his spare time perfecting his golf game. Jaime (Joanne Froggatt) is his assistant. He tracks down his daughter Lucy (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) in Brooklyn. She's a daughter that he didn't know he had for 25 years.
This doesn't have the loudest of dramas. It's very quiet. At first, I'm expecting Hallmark channel but this is trying to throwback to a quieter melodrama. I appreciate Wendell Pierce. For the drama, I would flip the characters and have Lucy search for her father. She could be searching for organ donors and that would give additional colors to their relationship. It would make another layer to everything and elevate this rather slow melodrama.
WHAT A CHARMING and DELIGHTFUL MOVIE
With all of the violence and excessive sex in today's movies, it was so wonderful to watch a movie that had none of that, but instead has depth and warmth. One Last Thing is one of the sweetest and tenderest movie I have seen in years. I wasn't expecting something so touching from a movie that wasn't highly rated. Big mistake by those that rated it. I don't even remember seeing it advertised at the movies. But I am glad that Netflix picked it up. Kudos to the writers and to the actors. Well done.