I just saw this in a small, local theater. Such a great film! I have not seen much promotion for this movie and have wondered why. There is certainly an audience for it.
share5 Flights Up is an independent film with no major distributor. Unless this kind of movie is released much later in the year and receives some Golden Globe or Academy Award nominations, it will not make the major multiplexes.
shareFirst I'd even "heard" of it, was a 1080p bluray copy on a major torrent website. Whatever customers they were eventually hoping for.... GONE. No cinemas, no promotion, nothing.
Take My Money!!
It's a miracle this movie was even made, let alone released. The vast majority
of today's films are made for children, adolescents, arrested adolescents, and
the vast foreign market who wouldn't understand the cultural references and dialogue and are just looking for CGI-laden live-action cartoons. Plus, of course,
it was a movie that centered on an older couple, yet it had none of the condescending attitudes toward the elderly that are typical of most movies--no death, no illness, no dementia, no childlike "cute" old people, no vulgar sex jokes (because old people being sexual is considered funny by the juvenile-minded).
It's the kind of gentle, slice-of-life film that is so often lauded with praise when it is
the product of another country, but unfortunately gets ignored when it's made in the U.S. Too bad. At least anyone who's looking for a nice little movie about real people can see it on DVD.
I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!
Hewwo.