Weakness [HD]

Bobby Cannavale is Brilliant as a Downhill Train wreck
WEAKNESS is a strange little film that in many ways describes the flailing sense of isolation so many people are feeling in contemporary society. While it tells a well constructed story it simultaneously pulls up the window shades on the realities of how far too many people have lost the positive direction of creating meaningful relationships. Michael Melamedoff is a young newcomer and this is his first full-length film - a work he both wrote and directed - and he gives evidence of a thinking man who has concerns about how we all function in this chaotic world.

High school English teacher Joshua Polansky (Bobby Cannavale, in an exceptionally fine performance) is a sweet guy whose pupils like him: outside the classroom his world is in shambles. He is married to the free-spirited Elizabeth (June Diane Raphael) whose hobby is making ceramic phalluses to sell at the local flea market and wants to try 'swinging' with another couple; his mother Lenore (Phyllis Somerville) is...

Weakness
Well written and directed.
Kept my attention at all times.
Very realistic, dramatic and funny at times.
Excellent performance by Cannavale and Panabaker.
The role of the autistic brother is very well acted.

love cannavale
great transaction film was moving. I'm not one to always need a happy ending. film arrived early and in condition advertised.

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