I picked this one up AFTER watching Sam Elliott in THE HERO.

Funny thing is, I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS isn't actually a Sam Elliott movie. He appears in and you are going to love his character if you dig Sam Ellliott and if you don't dig him well, you ought to check yourself for a pulse.

HOWEVER, Elliott is only in it for a while. Still, he and Blythe Danner chew up the scenery with gusto.

In a funny sort of way this movie ends almost exactly the same way THE HERO did. It is a movie about taking chances and not being afraid to get out there on the great big old dance floor of life.

It touched me and I'd watch it again - but it is an arthouse kind of movie and you don't want to get into this flick if you are expecting a Harlequin romance kind of happy-ever-after. I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS is more along the lines of a live-life-while-you-can sort of story.

I dug it.

Steve Vernon
Writer, storyteller, and come-by-chance movie critic.

I liked this movie for the most part but I made the mistake of watching it shortly after my husband passed away and the fact that it deals with a loss hit me hard.. It's a well made movie but I wish it could have gone in a different direction b/c it wasn't as touching as I had hoped. I don't want to say anything more without ruining the movie for viewers so let that speak for itself. The acting was very good and I really think I would have enjoyed the movie more had things turned out differently.

With a younger man giving her cause to reflect on her past and an older one giving her hope for the future, one seventy-ish widow's comfortable rut is about to get shaken. But, as they say, life sometimes happens… Life doesn’t exactly begin again in Brett Haley’s warmhearted character study which thankfully avoids all those “second childhood” clichés, rather it receives a gentle reboot in a mature woman who once thought all her happiness was bound up in the funeral urn and old photographs adorning her mantle. Danner brings a sense of dignity and fatalistic wisdom to the role which is beautifully offset by Rhea Perlman, June Squibb, and Mary Kay Place as her female posse—a night of “speed dating” elicits a wry smile which turns to outright laughter when they all decide to try pot again after a forty year hiatus. Free of aging boomer caricatures, patronizing homilies, and tidy endings, Haley’s easygoing script aims for the mind as well as the heart to prove that even one’s sunset years can still contain flashes of sunlight.

Disappointed in this. Thought this was about new beginnings not about how life can still suck at any age. It was like eating a half a cupcake and finding a big ugly worm in the middle. Delicious cast though, Sam Elliot is still yummy.

Blythe Danner is wonderfully cast, though the script is a bit too predictable. And (a common complaint) there's not enough Sam Elliott.

Not a bad movie but sort of predictable.

Rated 6/10.

Not your usual romantic comedy. Well done. Recommend.

Picked this one up on a whim -Captivating performance by Blythe Danner
as the widow coming to terms with love and loss and featuring as a love interest, Sam Elliot
playing Sam Elliot with a cigar. A sweet movie for grownups which is probably why
I never heard of it.

This is more of a drama than a comedy. Blythe Danner's character tries to reinvent her life after losing loved ones. I enjoyed her friendships with her girlfriends and the pool maintenance man played by Martin Starr. It has the feel of an independent film, and some viewers will find it too slow and sad. I think it's worth seeing at least once. The Meddler treads similar ground and is a slightly better movie.