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I have four final Oscar based reviews coming out, I promise I watched them before the show, so if we could pretend I got them out before the show that would be great! The first review is Four Good Days which has a whole one nomination; “Somehow you do” for Best Original Song. I really didn’t like this song, I don’t think it sounded good, so I don’t think it ever stood a chance at winning. As for the rest of the movie, I quite enjoyed it. It gives a very true and honest depiction of drug use and the effects it has on those around you. The many things you can lose for using and the strain it puts on the relationships in your life. Glenn Close gives a very good performance as the mother that has tried so many times to help her daughter and ended up getting hurt even more times and now she has just given up. Mila Kunis transforms herself into a scarred and toothless heroine addict very well and delivers a really good performance. Stephen Root doesn’t have much to do until near the end but he has a really great scene opposite of Close about how she treats him when her daughter comes back around. They approach drug use from a few directions, debating where the disease comes from and what might happen in life to cause it. I think they do a good job leaving it up to interpretation and letting you decide how someone starts using drugs. There’s nothing really special about how the movie is made or even the story really. But even being a pretty basic movie on drug use, I really enjoyed the story. For the most part it feels like it is hitting all the bases that have been laid out in the past and just packages it around the great performances within the movie. Close and Kunis work really well together despite not really looking related in any way. The movie is very heavy on the two of them and everyone else in the movie never really gets a chance to shine other than Root. I’m giving Four Good Days a decent 8/10, I see why it wasn’t nominated for anything else and really don’t understand the one it has. But I do think it is worth at least one watch if only for the performances from Glenn Close, Mila Kunis, and Stephen Root. -Tyler.
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