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Darling Companion

(No longer in theaters)

Rating: PG-13 — for some sexual content including references, and language
Director: Lawrence Kasdan Cast: Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline, Dianne Wiest, Richard Jenkins, Sam Shepard
Running Time: 103 minutes
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Genre

Drama

Distributor

Sony Pictures Classics

Release Date

Apr 20, 2012

Release Notes

NY/LA

Official Website

www.darlingcompanion.com

Review

Lawrence Kasdan’s heartfelt ensemble drama Darling Companion is heartbreakingly limp. Co-written by Kasdan’s wife, Meg, it has the shapeless spread of nonfiction, of a home movie with a hint of that newfangled mumblecore thing the kids these days are into. In the first part, a doctor’s lonely wife, Beth (Diane ï¿½Keaton), and her single daughter (Elisabeth Moss) find an injured dog by the side of the road. A year later, the daughter is married and the pooch has moved to the center of Beth’s lifeï¿½whereupon her husband (Kevin Kline) loses it in the mountains. Characters played by Dianne Wiest, Richard Jenkins, Mark Duplass, and Ayelet Zurer (as a housekeeper with, gulp, second sight) bicker and bond in the course of the search. But if you can stay awake, you’ll see a performance by ï¿½Keaton that is radiant in its simplicity, all ditheriness shaken off. She’s still ï¿½peakingï¿½ï¿½someone give her a great role. — David Edelstein