Everybody's Fine

In "Everybody's Fine", Robert Deniro plays Frank, a recently widowed father of 4 adult children (Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, Austin Lysy), none of them are able to visit him for the holidays, so he embarks on a cross-country trip to visit each child at their homes. Frank is the cliched father type who never could see his children for who they are, but rather who they were, small grade school children, while his wife managed all the details of the children's lives and kept Frank's arrested development in fatherhood in check until her demise.

The film follows Frank on this trip, where he isn't able to contact David in New York, so he heads on over to Chicago and visits with Amy (Beckinsale) and her family which is cut short due to schedules, then Frank shows up in Colorado and meets up wit Robert (Rockwell), and finally he makes it to Las Vegas to get together with Rosie (Barrymore). Throughout the journey, the siblings back channel chatter is mainly about David's situation, and how they all agree to keep things from Frank until they know more information.

The film is probably more sentimental it needs to be as Frank comes to grips with the truth of his children's own journeys into adulthood, and how not everything is ideal in his children's lives.

I give it 2.5 stars or a grade of C+.