Jason Sudeikis does the best and most sensitive work of his acting career and Ed Harris is typically first-rate -a combination of raw mendacity and hidden humanity. The delivery of the last rolls of Kodachrome Ben leaves behind marks the end of an era, but it provides Matt and Zooey with a new way to see progress through a lens of compassion and start over with a fresh lease on life and love.
The big reveal is what the son finds in the photos after they are developed -clues to a lost childhood that warm his heart, without shred of corny sentiment. When they reach Kansas, the best photographers who have gathered to preserve their final work treat Ben like an icon and an inspiration, and Matt finally sees his father in a new light.
Starring: Jason Sudeikis, Ed Harris and Elizabeth Olsen While Ben shows tiny signs of mellowing, Matt stops off along the way to sign a new rock band, but when he realizes he has no respect for them as artists and people, he cancels the deal. Zooey works tirelessly on the road to soften their relationship and all three of the fellow travelers have something painful to hide. Ben is a dreadful force of apathy and he is all too willing to admit it without apology, but there is growing evidence that he wants to make amends. The trip is fraught with insults between father and son (“Are you trying to prove your empty, selfish life is anything but meaningless?” asks Matt) but as the misery stretches out from New York to Kansas, director Mark Raso and screenwriter Jonathan Tropper make the reasons for the animosity abundantly clear. Matt hates the father who abused his mother and neglected him as a child, and hasn’t spoken to the old man in a decade, but out of guilt, responsibility and pity, he decides to take the trip, with Ben and his nurse Zooey in tow. The hitch is there is only one remaining lab in the world called Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas (a real place) that processes Kodachrome film stock and it will close its doors forever in a matter of days, and Ben wants his son to drive him there. Ben (Ed Harris) is a world-famous photographer with a box of old, undeveloped film he wants to display in one last art gallery exhibition before he dies. Understandably depressed, he’s wondering what to do next when a pretty girl named Zooey (Elizabeth Olsen) informs him his father Ben is dying of liver cancer with less than three months to live. Cynical after an acrimonious divorce and dumped by his latest Top Ten pop discovery, record producer Matt (Jason Sudeikis) is out of luck and employment. It is also a road trip, a love story, and a domestic drama about failed communications between generations divided by grief and misunderstanding. The tragedy of saying goodbye to all that is what Kodachrome is about. movies you can see on a screen bigger than a postage stamp, books you can read sitting down, and the beautiful music of long-playing vinyl records. Real photographs you used to keep forever in silver frames have gone the way of land lines that allow you to hear the voice on the other end with clarity, 35-mm. You end up with pieces of paper you erase upon digital delivery. You see all of these victims of cell-phone addiction running around taking pictures of dogs, parking meters and each other without any place to develop them. It’s actually a lament for another lost American value replaced by digital second-rateness, this time the cherished Kodachrome color film process by which photography used to look 100 times better than it does now. Well-considered and sincerely acted, Kodachrome is a character-driven drama that has been wrongly labeled a comedy by some so-called critics. Ed's car was also the one that ran Emma off the road, so we can assume that the couple were responsible for those threat calls as well.Ed Harris and Jason Sudeikis in Kodachrome. It turns out that Dawn and Ed have covered up Nick's murder together, with Dawn confessing to cleaning up the crime scene. Luckily, the police are right behind them, since Kai had shared Dawn's address with Sophie and Ethan. While Sophie and Pia search for him, Dawn and Ed take Kai to their trailer and take away his phone. Kai, confused at finding his dad's co-worker at the catfish's address, accepts her invitation into the house. So Ed, a character we meet in the finale, has been the killer all along. While Nick threatens to reveal everything, Ed comes up from behind and bludgeons him with a hammer. He confronts her about the fake profiles, saying that she was the only person who had access to his photos and knew his personal information, as he had previously confided in her about Sophie's affair. Rather than head home to safety, Nick goes straight from Simon's warehouse to Dawn's house.
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