Danny Collins (2015 Dan Fogelman & scr)

'The following is kind of based on a true story a little bit'. Though I have to say it was a mistake to pepper the film with John Lennon songs - despite his connection to the story - because it double exposes how bad Danny Collins' material is. That is the weakness in an otherwise well written and enjoyable film.

Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Christopher Plummer, Jennifer Garner, Bobby Cannavale.

Love the way Bobby calms his daughter Giselle Eisenberg (that seems real), and the way it's used later. And 'Goodbye, Hope'.

Fogelman in an inveterate series creator, with Like Family (2003), The Neighbors (2012), Galavant (2015), Pitch (2016) and This Is Us (2016) to his credit. Features include TV movie The King of 7B, Life Itself (2018), Last Vegas (2013), The Guilt Trip (2012), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), wrote story for Cars 2 and Rapunzel animation Tangled.

I love the way only very much later on does Plummer reveal to Cannavale something really wonderful about his father's history.

Somewhat arbitrarily, film is shot (by Steve Yedlin) in ratio of 2.6:1, though the shape is used well: