Solitary Man (2009)
Despite boasting a cast that includes Michael Douglas, Jenna Fischer, Susan Sarandon, Danny DeVito and Jesse Eisenberg as well as the writing team behind Rounders (1998) this film made no great shakes at the box office. When a car sales man finds out he may have something wrong with his heart he spends six years destroying his life and banging every woman he can talk into bed.
Given all the talent involved here this film is not especially remarkable, a man faces his own mortality and eventually has to decide what is important to him. There is nothing revolutionary in the plot or the execution of the film which does everything you would expect it to without dipping into sentimentality. Everything about this film smacks average which ends up being more of a disappointment than it should be really.
3/5
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