Joaquin Phoenix and Woody Norman’s heart-warming turn as uncle and nephew on a transformative road trip joins classics of the genre from The Kid to KolyaA single man who has no great attachments in life is, by some complicated chain of circumstances, entrusted with the care of someone else’s child.
Adventures ensue, and along the way both child and unlikely guardian do their own share of growing up.
As an essential story premise, it’s been a Hollywood go-to for over a century, at least since Charlie Chaplin awkwardly took on a foundling infant in silent classic The Kid.It’s a trope that often lends itself to gloopy sentimentality and pat buddy comedy – but writer-director Mike Mills avoids both those pitfalls in his altogether lovely film C’mon C’mon, now out for home viewing after getting rather too little attention in cinemas.
It’s a film both comforting and bracing,
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