An occasionally surreal meditation on coping with loss, and a love story with a dark side the size of Montana. However you categorize writer/director Brad Silberling's wryly funny picture, it's clear that he's come a long way since the child-friendly haunts of CASPER (1995). Set in New England in the early '70s, the film revolves around young Joe Nast (Jake Gyllenhaal), who finds himself lingering in his fiancée's family home after her apparently random murder, grieving along with her parents, likeable but feckless real-estate salesman Ben Floss (Dustin Hoffman) and his artsy, plainspoken soulmate, JoJo (Susan Sarandon). Joe and the family are also involved with the ...
Released:
2002
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
117 mins