Danny Collins
A great cast (Al Pacino in the title role, the always amazing Annette Bening, the working-class hot Bobby Cannavale, the winningly dimpled Jennifer Garner, and the stalwart Christopher Plummer) elevates DANNY COLLINS beyond the safe material that writer-director Dan Fogelman provides. When a lost letter from John Lennon finally finds the hands of dissipated, stagnating Collins, an aging rock superstar, it unleashes a lifetime of regret and sends him on a quest for redemption…to backwater, New Jersey. Though what comes next doesn’t deviate much from the predictable, the warmth that still animates these tired old bones flows from the performances, especially Annette Bening. Always Annette Bening. –YSM