Release Date: April 22, 2016
Starring: Tom Hanks as Alan
Alexander Black as Yousef
Sarita Choudhury as Zahra
Directed By: Tom Tykwer
Written By: Tom Tykwer based of the novel by Dave Eggers
In the last few years Alan has failed at literally everything. His job is not doing well, he and his wife divorced, and he doesn't have enough money to send his only daughter to college. He feels like he is out of options. To make everything worse, he now has a mysterious lump on his back. He hopes that the answer will all be found with a business trip to Saudi Arabia to make a sales pitch to the king. If he can make this pitch then he will have sold some of the greatest Hologram technology to furnish the future of Saudi Arabia. When he gets there he finds that this vast new dream empire not only hasn't gotten off the ground, but has barely made it off the paper it was sketched on. For the cherry on top, the king hasn't even been by in over a year. One guilt ridden, drunken night, Alan has a panic attack and a female doctor comes to his aid. After some tests, and a cancer scare, Alan starts to fight back to the man he used to be with the help of new friends and a new love.
I think this is my favorite movie this year so far. It's very relateable in feeling that you have failed and that you can find a way out of it. That life does not always give you what you ask, or what you expect for that matter. It shows just how unexpected life can be. That you can put all of this work into one thing, and try to make it work, when sometimes life is telling you that you need to roll with the punches, or you're going to get run over. Ultimately, it's showing you that life is made up of the choices that you make.
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