Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This movie nailed it. If you want to see the collateral beauty that occurs as grief transitions from the winter of death to spring time of life again after the passing of your dearest one, watch this film. Maybe this feeling impossible to capture with the medium of film, but this movie comes closer than anything else I've seen. The dominos, riding against the traffic, the pain of reconnecting to life are all realistically portrayed by Will Smith's intense facial expressions. I identified with him. It gets to where it seems easier to remain in the numbness rather than to push through the pain of reconnecting to life again, but then one misses the collateral beauty. This film is ultimately about healing and hope. Please listen to the reviews from the members of the club who have confronted this, we who have stood over the grave of a child, consigning to decay the best of our hopes and dreams in this life. My daughter's name is Rachel. She died of Dravet's Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder also called severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy, or SMEI for short. She was 13 years old.