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Family is a trip.
A terminally ill man and his teenage daughter embark on a road trip from California to New Orleans for his 20th college reunion. While there, he secretly hopes she can reunite with the mother who left them long ago.
Don't Make Me Go
2022 Directed by Hannah Marks
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留在身旁, 不要讓我走
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Fuck you for making me cry. Damn near coulda been a 4 star movie if it wasn't for that ending that completely blindsided me. Other than that though, I thoroughly enjoyed this.
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DON’T MAKE ME GO is a pretty decent road film for most of its runtime. John Cho & Mia Isaac are emotionally affecting, especially in their climatic scene, which had me sobbing. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, the manipulative ending blindsides, bewilders and left me feeling sucker punched. Not enough to completely ruin everything but it was totally unnecessary.
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a road trip film with some cheesy conversations, amazing soundtracks and an unexpected twist.
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Like watching a really well engineered bullet train that runs extremely smooth for the first 3/4 take a sharp left turn and utterly destroy itself
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i was able to see this last night for its premiere at Tribeca and was absolutely blown away. the soundtrack is maybe the best i’ve heard in recent film, featuring my favorite song by The Strokes, Selfless. the acting was unreal, which i can’t believe this was Mia Isaac’s first role ever. she was amazing!
as someone who’s mom was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer when i was 14, this film really hit a soft spot for me. while i didn’t know this at the time, she was given 3 months to live, but held on for 6 months because she was so strong and fought so hard to be there for her three daughters. on the other side of… -
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A really good film that almost completely ruins itself through it’s questionable final act. John Cho and Mia Isaac were fantastic together, with their highly affecting and admirable chemistry really holding this together.
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A bittersweet father-daughter drama. John Cho stars as Max, after finding out he has a terminal illness, he decides to embark on a road trip to bond with his daughter, Wally (Mia Isaac from Not Okay) in hopes of secretly reuniting her with her mother. Cho always brings it. Isaac was great but there were some parts where the character was written to be overdramatic. That did get annoying at times. And the narration at the end was a bit much. It’s a familiar story, seemingly predictable but it takes a different route to make it unique. The film slowly builds momentum. There were a ton of quirky and charming moments. I laughed, I cried. Overall, it’s a wonderfully touching film.
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Tribeca Film Fest 2022
Max (John Cho) learns he has a fatal bone tumor and decides to take his daughter Wally (Mia Isaac) on a cross country road trip. Unbeknownst to Wally, Max wants to take the opportunity to try and teach her the lessons she may need for the rest if her life and also to introduce her to her mother who abandoned her years before since she has no other family to speak of. Cho and Isaac have great chemistry together which is key because the entire film wouldn’t work without it. It’s a sentimental father-daughter road trip film filled with perspectives on chasing your dreams vs settling on the “safe” or “responsible” choices. It honestly reminded me a lot of…