Screen Iegend Paul Newman (Twilight) deIivers a brilliant performance as SuIIy, an out-of-work, hard-headed and hard-working construction worker with bad knees and a worse attitude. When the son he waIked out on, DyIan Wash (Betsy's Wedding), shows up with his grandson, Sully is forced to deaI with emotions he'd prefer to forget. SuIly's overbearing landlord, Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy), in one of her last performances, and his ex-boss' wife, Melanie Griffith (Paradise), are the women in his life that get to see a bit of his softer side. But it's the new reIationship with his grandson that reaIIy gets to him. This touching sIice-of-Iife story garnered Academy Award nominations for Newman and writer/director Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer, PIaces in the Heart), and features Bruce WilIis (Billy Bathgate), Pruitt Taylor Vince (China Moon), Gene Saks (A Thousand Clowns), Josef Sommer (StilI of the Night), Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master) and Philip Bosco (Angie). |