I'm hooked on De Niro & Streep, but still . . . I watched this movie cause it starred De Niro and Streep - and that is actor heaven as far as just about anyone is concerned. But still, I was very uncomfortable during portions of the movie - in particular, the last 10 minutes, in which we, the audience, were not so subtly being manipulated. "Will they get together? Will they not? Yes? No? Yes? No?" I felt like I was watching a soap opera. Whenever a director distrusts an audience so greatly that he feels he has to overtly manipulate them into feeling what he wants them to feel, the movie is cheapened - often beyond redemption.
Still, it was so much fun to watch De Niro and Streep -