An Unfinished Life

Robert Redford has been less active in recent years (as a movie star,
anyway), but "An Unfinished Life" is a reminder that his talent is only getting
stronger, that his acting life is indeed not yet finished.

Here he plays a gruff and solitary Wyoming rancher named Einar Gilkyson,
whose body and pickup truck are both beginning to suffer from age. With his
frequent muttering and cowboy-style swearing, Einar is a Clint Eastwood kind of
role for Redford; he's even got Eastwood's old buddy Morgan Freeman on staff, as
Einar's ranch hand and best friend Mitch.

Einar sold off most of his cows years ago and now lives quietly and simply on
the homestead. This existence is disrupted by the arrival of his dead son's wife
Jean (Jennifer Lopez), whom he has not seen since the funeral 12 years ago and
whom he blames for the car-accident death of his beloved son. He did not know
that ...
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