i go to see evening because of the cast . i would go to see norman room for that reason that movie offering diane keaton and leonardo de caprio and and also and meryl streep and have love every minute of it . same for the notebook even though it be chick flit lite . and my feeling be and anything offering performance by vanessa redgrave and meryl streep and patrick wilson and glenn close would be at least a good . instead and i find sometimes even the great actor can not overcome trite and simplistic and on one occasion truly offensive material . now i have no problem with the way the film be structure . i actually enjoy movie that cut back and forth in time to tell a story . so long a one era illuminate the other and vise verse . but while vanessa character be on her deathbed and recall a past event she felt be a mistake be rivet and at time and the part actually show what that past mistake be do nothing to clarify the matter . in fact and it make it seem meaningless in the silly girl meet boy and girl get boy and girl loses boy fashion and and in the most unbelievable and clichéd and wrong head way possible . and from here be spoiler and so bear that in mind should you continue read . first of all and claire dane be brutally miscast . not only do she not even begin to resemble vanessa redgrave a a young woman and she have nowhere near the chop when it come to act . don not get me wrong and she can be good in the right role just not this one . and patrick wilson be miscast and though he have the act chop to almost pull it off . he would have be well suit to the part hugh dancy play the rich confused wasp and not the object of sexual attraction to one and all while he a bit too wasp y for that . hugh dancy . one note i be a tortured drunk and wait till you find out why . and the why ( i be a closet case in a sexually repress world and so i have to drink to excess and make a fool of myself in front of everyone i know ) be so offensive to me and the manner in which he die ( a you know he would because that the only thing that can happen to a faggot in the fifty ) so ludicrous and wrong head and mishandle and i nearly threw my candy at the screen . a for the modern part between toni collette and her sister and her fear of commitment and her jealousy of her sister perfect life and her sister wondering if she make the right choice and her pregnancy and her too perfect boyfriend ( which actually might have be more interesting and meaningful if play by patrick wilson and and ebon moss bachrach might have be a more interesting harris and give his dreamy eye ) anyway and all this be hash over in the 70 and 80 . and in much great depth . do we really have to present it and again and and all a if it be fresh and momentous . and to top it off and meryl streep doesn not even appear until the last ten minute of the movie and all in old lady makeup that hide many of her facial expression . she still good and but only because she meryl and and meryl can find a way to pull off even the silly dialog under the heavy of makeup . so to put it simply and this movie have every cliché in the really meaningful message movie book and and it add a few that really have no business be trot out and again . at two hour long and lace with lifetime movie of the week music that be guarantee to rub you raw and it a complete failure in both the meaningful and moviemaking aspect . i give it 3 only because of meryl and vanessa . now and if all you require from your film be twadd le and then please set my comment about even aside and have the time of your life . but if you want a truly meaningful experience be serve up by great actor and filmmaker who know what to do with a simple story about life and death and all the nonsense it bring and rent norman room and find out what truly great acting be .