Synopsis
Dr. Abe Mandelbaum has just moved into a retirement home. After forming an unlikely friendship with a womanizing gambler, their relationship is tested when they each try to convince a mysterious nurse that they are her long-lost father.
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Cast
- Martin LandauAbe
- Paul SorvinoPhil
- Maria DizziaAngela
- Pamela DubinSheryl
- Molly BettencourtYoung Jeannie
- John CelliniYoung Billy
- Alexander CookGrollman
- Anabel GraetzThe Woman and Old Woman
- Elaine Victoria GreyResident, Assisted Living
- London HallOffice Staff
Recommendations
- 70
Variety
This low-key and deeply felt indie is unsentimentally blunt while addressing the humiliating debilitations that often define geriatric life. At the same time, however, it scrupulously eschews excessive grimness and shameless heart-tugging, and elicits more than a few laughs in the bargain, while focusing more often on how the title characters deal with last chances and unfinished business. - 69
Paste Magazine
The film’s highlight is the swaggering Sorvino. More charming with age, like wine or scoundrels, he manages to enrapture without pandering, entertain without sacrifice or compromise. - 60
Village Voice
In the actor’s final role, Landau’s expressive power plays out in the soft folds of his gaunt face. Weiner offers a comforting vision of unlikely friendship and the peace an important man can find by embracing his ordinariness. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
The creativity doesn't match up to the ideals here, even if Abe & Phil does offer one of the better final scenes (a grace note, really) seen in recent indies. - 30
Los Angeles Times
Tripping over soapy subplots and maudlin conventions, it loses its footing just as Abe regains his mojo. - 30
The New York Times
The medical tidbits, however awkwardly presented, are the most distinctive aspects of the script. The flat direction, alas, is not the work of a filmmaker.
