The Bachelors
After the early death of his wife, a mourning father moves with his teenage son across the country for a private school teaching job. Their lives begin to transform due to two unique women, who help them embrace life and love again.
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24 August 1956, Chicago, Illinois, USA
5 January 1995, Laredo, Texas, USA
9 January 1955, Detroit, Michigan, USA
16 March 1997
22 May 1996, California, USA
19 February 1996, Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
2 November 1998, Houston, Texas, USA
7 August 1963, Brooklyn, New York, USA
12 May 1997, Haifa, Israel
9 March 1972, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
9 March 1959, Chicago, Illinois, USA
26 May 1975, London, England, UK
10 August 1972, White Plains, New York, USA
27 December 1996, Hamlin, Texas, USA
October 19, 2017
Voelker doesn't pour on the syrup, creating an approachable but deeply felt picture that's curious about behavior and therapy.
October 18, 2017
Voelker excels at guiding the cast through some complicated emotional territory and maintains strong arcs for each of the principal characters.
October 20, 2017
And the characters might have been one-dimensional, defined by their loss and presented as helpless, but they're not. They have realistic strengths and weaknesses.
October 18, 2017
The Bachelors is just a snapshot of a moment in life, but it's the sort of picture you'd want to keep.
October 20, 2017
The character [Josh Wiggins and Odey Arush] play and the relationship they develop are honest and poignant in the best sense, which is a good description of the film as a whole.
October 19, 2017
Deftly balancing humor and grief, "The Bachelors" is fueled by wonderfully human performances and fully realized characters.
January 23, 2018
The story is predictable, but Simmons' tighty whities and Delpy's fish impressions compensate.
October 20, 2017
The story is simple [...] and the acting is brilliant, but the pace and style of The Bachelors may be too depressing to appeal to the Instagram set.
October 10, 2017
Beautifully-acted but utterly unsurprising love-recovers-from-grief romance.
October 20, 2017
The emotional authenticity is compromised by familiarity and contrived catharsis.
October 14, 2017
J.K. Simmons plays a poignant role of a grieving father who, together with his son, seek love after a family death.
October 23, 2017
The Bachelors is a scarcity of a film, one that transcends several genres to create an affecting orotundity through its singular voice.
