New York Daily News: Everybody's Fine

By Joe Neumaier
New York Daily News
Excerpt
December 3, 2009

Getting the details right counts for a lot. "Everybody's Fine" - a more subtle film than its advertising indicates - works because it has a feel for little things. Like how a widower looks away when he says he doesn't still speak to a wife who isn't there, or how grown children know what word irks their dad, who in a glance can see them as the 5-year-olds they once were.

British writer/director Kirk Jones' remake of a 1990 Italian movie also contains what's become a rarity: A sweet, human-size Robert De Niro performance. The two-time Oscar-winner and one-man Mount Rushmore of New York was in danger of being defined by big comedies ("Analyze This," "Meet the Parents" and their sequels) and small catastrophes ("Righteous Kill," "Hide and Seek"). Here, the actor dials it down and wins us over...

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