Amy (Melanie Lynskey) has left her husband and moved back with her parents (Blythe Danner, John Rubinstein). She is depressed and unmotivated. She can barely get up the will to dress nicely for a dinner party. At the party, she begins an affair with 19 year old Jeremy (Christopher Abbott). She becomes energized as she risks discovery of the inappropriate affair.
This is Melanie Lynskey's movie and her best performance ever. As always she is her lovable vulnerable self. But she stretches to encompass the many different emotions of her character. The only problem is the perfectly crafted speeches she gives. It's a thin line between poignant emotional truth and too perfect hokey monologue. Luckily Amy is a middle age character, not the usual emo teen. So I'm willing to go with the former, and buy that she's a lit major. Melanie Lynskey finally returns to a lead role in a movie. And she is amazing in it. I hope she will get more chances at the leading lady role in the future.
Hello I Must Be Going
2012
Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Hello I Must Be Going
2012
Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Plot summary
Following the break-up with and imminent divorce from her entertainment lawyer husband David, thirty-something Amy moves back in with her upper middle class parents Ruth and Stan Minsky in Westport, Connecticut. David asked for the divorce following an affair he had with who Amy considered a friend. Knowledge of the affair and David asking for the divorce came out of left field for Amy, who thought she had the perfect marriage. In her surprise and shock about David, she left David basically with the clothes on her back, and has not asked for anything in the divorce settlement. Three months later, she is still in a depressed state, not leaving the house and not knowing what to do with her life. She has no real job experience, has only a liberal arts degree, and abandoned her Master's degree studies in Photography to marry David. She believes her parents have mixed feelings about her return. Although they have both welcomed her back, she believes Ruth is critical not so much about what she does but more about what she doesn't do. Focused Ruth has a perfectly laid out plan for the twilight of her and Stan's lives, which largely is to complete the renovations on the house and travel the world, and didn't include Amy moving back in with them. Conversely, Amy believes Stan is the only person who loves her unconditionally, despite he admitting he never knowing the right thing to say to her. To her surprise and reluctance, Amy enters into a clandestine relationship with nineteen year old Jeremy, an actor with a modicum of success and fame. The reason for not telling anyone of the relationship is due to a combination of the differences in their ages, and the fact that Jeremy's stepfather Larry is a potential client of Stan's, Stan who feels that he needs Larry as a client to be able to retire, something he has already postponed due to market forces working against him. As much as both Amy and Jeremy become emotionally invested in the other's life - Jeremy who is facing his own issues, despite the overwhelming support from his therapist mother, Gwen, who is his biggest champion in whatever he does - Amy is still reluctant to classify what they have as a relationship. As certain realities come to light within this collective of people, Amy may come to some conclusions about the post-David phase of her life.
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Melanie Lynskey's best ever
Hello I Must Be Going is a dramatic comedy of a plain women
"Melanie Lynsky leads a great ensemble of actors giving great performances making the film more compelling even with some faults throughout the film"
Stories about olden women falling in love have been told on screen and off screen for so long now that these types of women have a word associated with this type of behaviour however unlike those type of women our main female in this film is different then most of those so called "Cougars". Amy (Melanie Lynsky) is just recently a divorcée who has moved back in with her parents Ruth (Blythe Danner) and Stan (John Rubinstein) Minsky. After many moths of depression Amy after meeting Jeremy (Christopher Abbott) she starts a sexual relationship with him that close people around her start to notice her depression disappearing as her secret relationship with Jeremy blossoms.
As I mentioned above stories like the one this film tells have been written so many times they get to repetitive however there is a difference which is that the main character of Amy is very depressed and sad unlike other women who are trying to act younger. The writing of the film flows well through scenes but some lines and scenes written bring the story to a stop as you question the believability of the actions of some of the characters. For example Ruth who seems more critical of her daughter instantly forgives Amy which does not seem realistic to how the character is written. The pace of the film does start slow but once Jeremy comes on screen the story moves quickly which is what you would want to happen.
Melanie Lynsky playing Amy is obviously the standout of the film because it is all about her. Her performance is both comedic and dramatic and she plays all those parts of the character very well especially in a scene she shares with Blythe Danner as the two fight because both get to stretch their dramatic skills playing off each other very well. Blythe Danner plays Amy's mother Ruth and while she starts off as a typical mother character Danner just plays the her so well. She may be on screen less then Lynsky but she plays her scenes so well especially when the cracks are visible in Danner's voice which is just her talent she has build up over the years. There are also fine performances from Julie White, Christopher Abbott and John Rubinstein but these three are not given much to do other then say the words.
The film is a fine dramatic romantic comedy with typical scenes of love but with a different lead character the film becomes more relate able especially in how the lead character is written. Strong ensemble work from almost everyone playing well off of each other.
MOVIE GRADE: C+ (MVP: Melanie Lynsky)
Truthful and funny story about recovering from divorce
This film screened at the 2012 New Hampshire Film Festival in Portsmouth, NH and several of the people I spoke to after really enjoyed it. I will admit that I felt it was slow at times. However, for anyone who has been through a divorce or knows someone who has been through a divorce, this is a fun film that I think can help a lot of people. I saw myself in some of the characters and I saw my friends and family. Two friends who saw the movie said that one scene came right out of their own lives after they got divorced. So while it may not be for everyone, I highly recommend this film to people who can relate to the material and think they might enjoy seeing the difficult subject of divorce treated with intelligence, humanity and humor.