Mostly dull but likable senior citizen melodrama.

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway aspires to be serious about its subject. Yet in a curious way this sobriety works against it. Frank and Walt turn into schematically contrasting case studies, and the movie's sympathy for them eventually becomes patronizing.

Offers little in the way of narrative drive or plot conflict, and what does happen is far from surprising. MacLaine and Piper Laurie are more or less wasted in supporting roles, and pretty Sandra Bullock is given almost nothing to do.

Randa Haines' sappy, rather dull melodrama about the friendship between two eccentric old men is mostly a showcase for its stars, Robert Duvall and Richard Harris.

Instead of simply assuming that the old have interesting lives, the film never stops congratulating itself for being daring enough to focus on them.

This movie is so loaded down with calendar-poster sentiments, you may find yourself wanting to wrestle the filmmakers.

It's another right of passage movie that pinballs off of clichs as though that is a way to achieve meaning.