Alan Alda plays a man with dementia and Matthew Broderick plays his loopy nephew in a charming comedy directed by Terry Kinney
di Jan Stuart The Los Angeles Times
In "Diminished Capacity," Alan Alda plays a former tavern owner in rural Missouri who is succumbing to dementia with style. To pass the time, he rigs the keyboard of an old manual typewriter to a baited fish hook, then waits for the fish to pull on the line and snap a letter onto a sheet of paper. After a small eternity (and only after judicious editing), poems happen.
It's a precious conceit, to be sure, and the spectacle of a grizzled Alda collaborating on fish haiku may be enough to send you bolting up the aisle before the end of the opening credits. [...]
di Jan Stuart, articolo completo (2798 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 4 luglio 2008
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