The Best of Me (2014)
Directed by Michael Hoffman
A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
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If you look at the past films that Fetters and Roth had written, perhaps you could see why A Star is Born became so schmaltzy and somewhat hackneyed: Eric Roth had written the overrated and cheesy Forrest Gump and the overwrought, overlong and lethargic The Curious Case of Benjamin Button while Will Fetters wrote the cloying romantic dramas The Best of Me and The Lucky Ones.
The relationship between Jackson and Ally beautifully takes its time, just as the screenplay, credited to Eric Roth (2011's " Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close ") and Bradley Cooper & Will Fetters (2014's " The Best of Me "), is interested in listening to themtheir viewpoints, the give-and-take of their burgeoning courtship, and their ultimate concerns for each other.His voice a few octaves lower, much of his mannerisms surely not his own, Bradley Cooper (2016's " War Dogs ") becomes Jackson Maine through and through while shedding all movie-star predilections except one: his innate charisma as a performer who, here, cannot be caught acting.
She’s raising a teenaged son, Kevin, played by Ian Nelson, who also had a bit part in last year’s Sparks adaptation The Best of Me, and seems not to have learned from the experience.