Collateral Beauty
Because of suffering a terrible tragedy, a successful New York advertising executive decides to have another life and seeks answers from the universe by writing letters to Love, Time and Death. Ultimately, he uncovers meaning things which he attempts to find out.
30 January 1956, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
18 August 1969, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
9 July 1973, Miami, Florida, USA
6 September 1976, London, England, UK
25 June 1940, Davenport, Iowa, USA
26 March 1985, Teddington, Middlesex, England, UK
February 01, 2017
Substitutes the necessary elements of personality and tangible emotion for overblown, new-age schmaltz, that manages to pull off the feat of being pompous and stale at the same time.
December 18, 2016
The failure of "Collateral Beauty" is all the more grievous for the waste of its superb actors.
December 16, 2016
A holiday movie with Hallmark Channel DNA that should star Jaleel White and Judith Light but somehow snagged a top-line cast that includes Will Smith, Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet, Keira Knightley and Edward Norton.
January 20, 2017
Why did it get made? And how much did its gifted cast of big names have to be paid to enable them to suspend disbelief and commit themselves to such a concentrated dose of drivel?
March 01, 2017
It is so completely demented in so many ways that it beggars belief that it could have made its journey from the page to big screen without anyone in a position of power along the way trying to shut the whole thing down.
December 19, 2016
It's transparently cynical, with no apparent endgame in mind other than simple profit. That it's able to waste such a fleet of capable actors and such elegant cinematography in the process is its main achievement.
December 18, 2016
If there's one constant about Collateral Beauty, it's how consistently it disappoints.
February 04, 2017
This is a contrived storyline that comes across as mean-spirited.
December 16, 2016
Somewhere in a forest, a maple tree wants all its sap back.
January 17, 2017
It's pretty hard to be overcome with emotion when you're groaning at each calculated, predictable and downright unpleasant turn.
December 17, 2016
The cast feels checked out: Winslet and Norton, two attractive and charismatic performers, have never looked more painted and tired.
