A fantastic, honest, and emotional film with a great performance from Michael Douglas. He plays these sleazy womanizing characters in his sleep, but he imbues this character with heartbreaking honesty and even though his characters ending is left in question by the end, you feel for the guy even though he honestly isn't trying hard enough to get his life back on track. It helps that the writing is witty and biting. It has a great supporting cast including Jenna Fischer as his daughter who is constantly nagging at him to better himself, Susan Sarandon as his ex-wife whom he loved but cheated on, Jesse Eisenburg as a college student he meets at the college he attended whom he tries to mentor and fails, Mary-Louise Parker as his girlfriend with huge connections thanks to her dad, and Imogen Poots as his girlfriend's daughter whom he sleeps with while on her college visitation and starts a chain of events that ruin him. This is not a happy film, but one that will stick with me longer than many others because of its honesty.
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