Quick Review: Everybody's Fine

In "Everybody's Fine," no one really is. Robert DeNiro is a recently-widowed retiree who, when all of his children cancel out on a planned visit, decides to go see them instead. Hopscotching across the country, he finds that when it comes to his kids, all is not as it seems. The acting (Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell and Drew Barrymore as three of the four siblings; the other is almost entirely unseen, for reasons that are explained as the film goes on) is fine, but my eyes were constantly rolling throughout. The movie telegraphs just about everything that's going to happen -- the fate of the missing son, what each of the kids is hiding from dear old Dad, the health scare -- and scenes that are supposed to be tearjerkers failed to get any moisture out of my eyes. And even some of the worst movies have managed to get me a little teary-eyed for a moment in recent years, a fact I am blaming solely on my advancing age. My grade: C-minus.