Category Archives: Jon Foster

Tenderness (2007)

“My wife likes to say there are two kinds of people. Those who are chasing pleasure and those who are running from pain. Maybe she’s right. I don’t know. What I do know is this. Pleasure helps you forget. But pain, pain forces you to hope. You tell yourself this can’t last. Today could be different. Today, something just might change.”

This is what Russell Crowe’s (Gladiator, Cinderella Man) character (Lt. Cristofuoro) says at the end of John Polson’s 2007 drama Tenderness. It is an excellent quote that all of us can ponder and adapt to how we live our lives…Unfortunately, the quote makes you want to nap rather than consider this imaginably meaningful phrase as the movie concludes.

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The Door in the Floor (2004)

Sometimes, life doesn’t go as planned, and sometimes, we have to find ways to deal with these events, which is the theme of the drama/comedy The Door In The Floor (2004). Jeff Bridges (Crazy HeartTrue Grit) and Kim Basinger (L.A. Confidential, 8 Mile) are at the top of their game as parents who have fallen out of love with each other following the deaths of their teenage sons. Tod Williams effectively adapts the first third of the John Irving novel “A Widow For One Year” in his directorial debut.

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