BEGINNERS at the Alamo

Ah, a beautiful film about relationships.  A 75 y.o. father comes out after his wife of 45 years dies.  He finds love and a community of supportive men and appears to be happy and fulfilling his dream life.  His grown son accepts his father's journey and seems happy by their new found closeness.  Then the diagnosis comes delivered by a cold matter-of-fact doctor...she's not evil..just business as usual when delivering the final pronouncement of "go home, get hospice, we're not helping you." Christopher Plummer is brilliant as a man who is happy and then finds his life will soon come to an end.  Ewan Mc Gregor and Melanie Laurent play the baffled, struggling lovers, beautifully and romantically.  Abe sighed a great deal of relief at their outcome.  And it was fun seeing Goran Visnjic from my ER days play a very human man who falls in love with this much older man.  And the dog!!!  He speaks in subtitles.  The audience loved it.  It's a lovely film.