Overstays its welcome, but the acting is terrific, and the screenplay sporadically excellent

Seventeen years ago, I was given the news of my grandmother's Alzheimer’s diagnosis. I was devastated for her. She was 68, young for such a thing and younger in spirit, sharp as a tack, a red-headed, heart-centered woman who demonstrated her Irish heritage in a work ethic and generosity of love that brought her to the highest levels of administration in, ironically, geriatric nursing.

I was perhaps more devastated for her husband, my grandfather. He adored her and had all his life. The... read the rest.