Pippa Lee

I am watching an amazing movie - The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009). You may have heard about it - Robin Wright Penn plays the wife of Alan Arkin's character. They meet when she is about 20 (played by Blake Lively at that age) and I would guess he is 50 something. You see them at that age, when they meet, but mainly when their kids are grown and they have moved into a retirement community. Pippa starts, or maybe now realizes that she is going through a crisis. Maybe it's a midlife crisis, but it appears Pippa has been in a crisis for 25 or 30 years. Maybe longer, actually.

So Pippa moves to the retirement village, and she is way to young for the place. And then something happens and she is able to pass the baton. That scene is great.

I always knew Robin Wright Penn was a good actor, but I think she is a great actor in this movie. It also has Keanu, Julianne Moore, Winona Rider, and you wouldn't believe all the the other people. Winona is hilarious. I was laughing so hard in one scene, I almost peed. This movie should not be funny, but it is - and touching and surprising.

There was one part that was too trite for me - too perfect, but I can live with one part that was trite.