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Diminished Capacity (2008)

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Reviews Counted:5

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Rotten:1

Average Rating:6.8/10

Consensus: This low-key comedy about memory loss offers mild pleasures but is too bland to fully resonate.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Jul 4, 2008 Limited

Synopsis: After a concussion leaves him unfocused, short on short-term memory, and demoted from the political pages to the comics, Cooper (Matthew Broderick), a Chicago newspaper editor, travels home to... After a concussion leaves him unfocused, short on short-term memory, and demoted from the political pages to the comics, Cooper (Matthew Broderick), a Chicago newspaper editor, travels home to Missouri to visit his aging Uncle Rollie (Alan Alda). On the verge of losing his home and exhibiting signs of senility, Rollie spends his time stubbornly refusing to pay bills, compulsively drying socks, and sitting by the lake editing "fish poetry" (think typewriter keys tied to baited fishing lines). But when he shows Cooper a near-mint-condition Frank "Wildfire" Schulte baseball card, the two muddled men—along with Cooper's high school sweetheart, Charlotte ( Virginia Madsen)--drive back to Chicago hoping to sell the antique card at a memorabilia convention. Director Terry Kinney and screenwriter Sherwood Kiraly (who also wrote the novel) have concocted a delightful, bittersweet comedy about people coming together and memory falling apart. Full of wit and observant character humor, Diminished Capacity is cleverly set in the world of baseball cards and commercialized nostalgia that allows us to explore the value of our memories (which may not be what's quoted in the price list) and who we are without them. It's with a hint of melancholy that we accept that our memories are fleeting, or as Rollie's fish point out in one of their more-accessible poems, "Time is the guest of the north." They may be on to something. -- © Sundance Film Festival [More]

Starring: Matthew Broderick, Virginia Madsen, Alan Alda, Louis C.K.

Starring: Matthew Broderick, Virginia Madsen, Alan Alda, Louis C.K., Jimmy Bennett, Jim True-Frost, Dylan Baker, Bobby Cannavale, Jeff Perry, Lois Smith, Tom Aldredge

Director: Terry Kinney

Director: Terry Kinney
Screenwriter: Sherwood Kiraly
Producer: Celine Rattray, Galt Niederhoffer, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Tim Evans
Composer: Robert Burger
Studio: IFC Films

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