- Directed : Kirk Jones
- Produced : Gianni Nunnari, Ted Field, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Glynis Murray
- Written : Kirk Jones
- Music : Dario Marianelli
- Distributed : Miramax Film
- Released : December 4, 2009
- Duration : 99 mins .
In the end of the year when Christmas Holiday comes, Hollywood never forget to accompany us with the family-themed movies. Everybody's Fine is one of them that is written and directed by Kirk Jones, and stared by Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Sam rockwell, and Kate Beckinsale.
Everybody's Fine itself is not a new story. This film is a remake of an Italian film titled Stanno Tutti Benne (They're All Fine) by director Giuseppe Tornatore, who was released in 1990 and had won much praise from many film critics the world, including a Golden Palm nomination for Tornatore in the arena Cannes Film Festival that year.
This film is about Frank Goode (Robet De Niro), whose wife recently passed away, who miss his four children and wants to have some quality times. He was having a hard time at that time. So he invites them to come visiting him. Before his children canceling the meeting by phone at the last minute, Frank gets everything all set. Like goes out and buys a new grill, expensive wine, and gets the backyard and house all ready.
So since they will not come to see him, he decides to go see them. Based on the news they send, Frank believes that his four children have achieved success as he expected. Unfortunately, his four children had been lying. None of them live decent and even one of them had died without being known by Frank.
This movie makes us realize that life doesn’t always like we want. And believe that everything happens for a reason. Nobody said it would be easy. But we have to keep going when life is getting you down.
