Bill Murray is Vincent an elderly crabby drunk who lives alone with his cat. Melissa McCarthy is Maggie, a single mom, who is Vincent's new next door neighbor. and Naomi Watts is a prostitute and pole dancer who is pregnant and who services Vincent weekly. oh, and Terrence Howard is Vincent's bookie (cuz of course Vincent also gambles) who is owed money.
All the acting is good. Murray has the foul mouthed fast witty rejoinder sarcastic role down pat. McCarthy plays her role 'straight' and is very good though her humorous way of expressing thoughts is still, fortunately, present. Her 8 or 9 year old son, Oliver, was perfectly cast; not too cute or too wise. Watts was in a role that was only there for filler plus to add some pathos to the already over-mushy ending.
Its basically a tale of how all the characters affect and change each other. The first half is hilarious and there was a lot of out loud spontaneous belly guffaws from me and Bill and the rest of the small audience. The humor was very good and the dialogue fast and the 3 stooges bits (there were a couple of scenes; one involved Maggie's movers and the other was vincent over the top inebriated;) were very funny.
However, after a medical event happened, it got pretty unbelievable and way too obvious in its pulling out all the kleenix stops. and i kept wondering how everything could have ended so well and where the hell did the money come from? (Vincent had no money in the bank and owed a lot from lost horse bets.)
Though i have to confess I cried just where the director wanted me to. Because the acting was so good and the fact that in spite of the Pollyanna ending, i was entertained, we both gave this film a 6.
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