The Frame

I’ve been half-meaning to watch this Oscar-winner (Picture and Dustin Hoffman for Actor) for a while, but I sort of put it off because it seemed like a film about an autistic savant and his greedy brother would just be depressing. Well, it isn’t. It’s funny, and sweet, and warm. Dustin Hoffman does an incredible job as the savant, able to calculate enormous math problems and memorize amazing detail (like, the phone book), yet unable to make it through the day without his set routines. Tom Cruise also does right by the part of the ambitious brother, who learns about Hoffman’s existence only when their father dies and leaves all his money to the autistic brother. Best picture of the year might be a bit much (Oscar, I’m looking at you), but it’s a very good film.
Well Above Average