Linda Holmes

The film is in theaters now.

Glenn, I'm going to start with you.

Where did you come down on the Christophers?

I heard somebody say about him once that if he's used in situations where he's supposed to be unappealing, he can be very, very good.

It's when you use him in a way where he's supposed to be ingratiating that his entire persona seems to kind of backfire and not really work.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Yeah, I really, really liked this too.

You've both sort of alluded to some of these elements, but one of the things I like about this story is that there's such a good balance between Laurie eventually comes to understand that she's dealing with this old man who is nearing the end of his life.

And even though he's...

He's kind of a misanthrope.

He's also actively lonely.

And I think the movie finds a way to navigate those things and sort of allow her to understand them without her kind of letting him off the hook for all the things he's ever done and all the ways he's ever behaved and sort of said, none of this is your responsibility.

It's okay.

Let me give you a hug, blah, blah, blah.

Mm-hmm.

She just understands that she's dealing with a man who, you know, his queerness has, you know, led to a lot of complexities in his life.

As he says at one point, I'm bisexual and was when that still cost something, I think he says.

Something along those lines, yeah.

She understands that element of it.