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I just watched this for the first time


I've known about this movie for a long time now, but never really wanted to watch it because I wasn't sure how serious I could take Adam Sandler playing such a serious role. Well, I just watched this movie for the first time two days ago and I absolutely loved it. I loved it so much that I watched it twice in one day. Adam Sandler's performance was powerful, especially in certain scenes. All actors and actresses did an outstanding job at playing their characters. The movie itself was really good and very emotional. If there's one thing I can think of that would have been this movie that much better, it would have been if they had more flashback scenes of his family when they were still alive. All they had was them really quick flashback scenes of his daughters running in the hall and his wife in the bathroom. I wish they would have dedicated at least one scene to a flashback of his family. But overall, I love this movie and I didn't see anything wrong with it. 8/10 for me.

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I agree with you, Immortal. It would have been nice to have flashbacks of Charlie's (aka Sandler's) family at least during the credits. I was blown away by Sandler's performance. Anybody who has ever experienced the horrific grief of losing more than one family member at once (and clearly a lot of the folks posting on this message board are too immature to understand that...) can relate to this movie. Yes, the movie is depressing but it was very well done. The film "Ordinary People" comes to mind.

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