A warm and gentle movie, around difficult spaces like failure, death and love......and some nice lines in between.
The movie opens with "a failure is simply the nonpresence of success. Any fool can accomplish a failure. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.”
And that's what we journey through alongwith Drew
The fiasco is of Drew's atheletic shoe design, one that he has worked on for eight years, crashing at the market and bringing down with it a company of 972 million dollars. He is on the verge of suicide, all planned and ready for execution, when he learns that his father has died and he needs to go arrange things in his home town in Kentucky.
On the way is the meet cute with Clare, his flight attendant. Through that relationship and his meeting with family in his home town, is where we see the play of death and the exuberance of life.....and it's juxtaposed quite beautifully.
What one will see is the possibility of recovering from failure and dealing with the loss of a loved one.
There's cute scenes and life lessons....a few which stayed
While they're great at long conversations on the phone, and are trying to be just friends, there's a moment when Crew kisses Claire.... passionately enough for her to say “Most of the sex I’ve had in my life was not as personal as that kiss.” Another one I found cute: "You are always trying to break up with me and then saying we are not even together"
A couple of realizations that empower Drew; ' a royal blunder never occurred from a quest for mere adequacy' and 'Success, not greatness, was the only god the entire world served'
Plus it had good music .....a worthwhile watch I'd say.
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