Well, adapted. Using the possessory credit 'A Film By' when it's an adaptation of another film is, I think, arrogant. (We liked Jones's first film Waking Ned.) Source was Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso) Stanno Tuttu Bene, which is finally available with English subtitles... from South Korea!
But this version is good. In drip-feed writing we eventually learn about Robert de Niro's children, which we see as young as well as old. They are Kate Beckinsale, and husband and son Damian Young and Lucian Maisel, Sam Rockwell, and Drew Barrymore. Moment where kid refuses to pass his father the sauce is a great touch.
The telephone cables is a connecting device (well, literally, but I meant metaphorically) through which we hear the kids' phone calls to each other (though of course it is a dated device already and was even then).
I don't know what was going on in 2016, but I remembered nothing about it. Though I did hit it right with 'Starts out as Tokyo Story, but isn't.'
Photographed by Henry Braham, edited by Andrew Mondshein (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Hundred Foot Journey), including a great montage at 55:45. The music by Dario Miarianelli is unremarkable. Andrew Jackness is the production designer.
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