Was not expecting to like this movie, but it was in my Netflix list, and i rolled the dice, but it had Michael Shannon as a guy name Shriver, and he plays this depressed building caretaker in New York when he gets a letter from some small town thats holding an annual Literary Festival but interest has declined for years and all the famous names on their list have declined their invites, but Kate Hudson's Simone, decides to write to Shriver, a reclusive author who wrote a famous book and went missing for 20 years. Shriver, hadnt read a book gets advice from his drinking buddy, Lenny player by Sons of Anarchy's Michael Boone Junior, and reluctantly goes to the festival, beliving there will be a prize of some sort, maybe cash, but knows that he'll likely get found out and tries to go back to New York but Simone who meets him at the hotel bar, makes him stick around awhile. Anyway the people want so bad to believe he is whom he says he is and he says some very profound things along the way, he even begins to write something on notepads in order have something to say and the ruse going. Along the way, a woman goes missing whonhad slept in his room and a police detecive is asking questions. Simones ex husband played by Don Johnson, as a poet is tryjng to party with him, and Shriver grunts his way through everything convincingly. He even manages to give good advice young writers at a workshop.
The acting is very good in this, no one is overly "hammy" or overacting. I usually love Michael Shannons movies because he is not your typical "movie star" type actor. He always seems out of place or miscast in about everything. But he fits this role perfectly, hes not overacting, hes actually barely acting here but its just the right tone, not silly of goofy, unique restraint in something that could have easily gone too overboard.
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