“You know when you get something you really want and you can’t believe it’s happening, well I’m still in awe and it’s a month past,” she said. “I had a great time, it was probably my life dream or life goal and I was super thrilled as you can imagine and just really happy.”īecca said she still can’t believe the experience. “It was so awesome, it was beyond words, it was amazing,” Becca said. “The ranch looked like the kind you would see in Gardnerville, which probably helped her be comfortable with the part.” “We shot out on a ranch that was 45 minutes from Medicine Hat in Alberta,” Gardner said. Gardner’s mother, Kelly, who taught hearing impaired students at Carson High School last year, said the best part of the experience was “getting to watch my kid fulfill her dream, watching her glow and do the things she loves most, which is acting,” Gardner said. Production of “An Unfinished Life” started April 21, mostly filming near the town of Kamloops, British Columbia, with additional filming done in Vancouver, which substituted for Wyoming.
“We were driving around in a circle and he made the steering wheel go straight and stepped on the gas and we got like 2 feet of airborne,” Becca said.
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“I learned how to drive in the movie - they were supposed to have a stunt double, but I did it so well I got to do it,” she said.Īccording to Becca, Redford made the driving experience memorable. Running time: 1 hour, 40 minutes.The two move in with her father-in-law played by Redford on his Wyoming ranch.īased on the novel, “An Unfinished Life” by Mark Spragg, the film is set to be released next year.Īlthough getting her driving permit is still a couple years away, Gardner did her own driving in the film. Screenplay Mark Spragg and Virginia Korus Spragg. Producers Leslie Holleran, Kelliann Ladd, Alan Ladd Jr. Times guidelines: Wife beating, sexual references and other adult material MPAA rating: PG-13 for some violence, including domestic abuse, and language When the bear isn’t on screen, “An Unfinished Life” makes do with sentimental musings like “Do you think the dead really care about our lives?” If that includes watching pictures like this, the answer is probably no. Still, if you compare his scenes with Freeman with what Freeman did with Clint Eastwood in a similar relationship in “Million Dollar Baby,” you end up respecting what Eastwood and screenwriter Paul Haggis accomplished more. While Lopez, Freeman and Lucas do solid work, it is Redford who seems to be having the most fun playing the crankiest geezer in town. It’s not that the action is that badly done, it’s that it’s so obvious. Griff and her grandfather will get close, psycho Gary will show up out of nowhere and that pesky bear will serve some dread metaphorical purpose. If you’ve ever seen a movie, you know what’s going to happen. Einar, who holds Jean responsible for his son’s death, does not exactly greet her with open arms, but local sheriff Crane Curtis (Josh Lucas) is more receptive. Ensnared in an abusive relationship with soft-spoken psycho Gary (Damian Lewis), Jean returns to Ishawooa for the first time in more than a decade. Halfway across the country, Einar’s widowed daughter-in-law, Jean (Lopez), and Griff, the 11-year-old granddaughter he doesn’t know he has (a charming Becca Gardner) are having problems of their own.
Up on a hill above the ranch house is the grave of Einar’s died-too-young son, with a gravestone inscribed “An Unfinished Life.” It starts with cantankerous rancher Einar Gilkyson (Redford), living outside Ishawooa, Wyo., with former hired hand Mitch Bradley (Freeman), now disabled because of an attack by that wandering bear. The film’s story is not a complicated one. Which is not surprising given that director Hallstrom, whose previous films include “The Shipping News,” “Chocolat” and “The Cider House Rules,” is a known wallower in emotion. The leanly written novel was widely praised for its unsentimental nature when it was published last year, but that quality is nowhere to be found in the film.
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