Matthew Broderick plays a guy recovering from a serious concussion still having memory and other issues. Alan Alda is his elderly uncle and has dementia. Both have "diminished capacity", get it? Anyway, Broderick goes to visit the uncle and learns he has a valuable baseball card and they head to Chicago to sell it. Virginia Madsen is a childhood friend who also needs to go to Chicago so she's along for the ride with her kid. This movie never really reaches the level of even "average" but the first 75 minutes aren't terrible. It's gentle, a little funny and there's a certain sad sweetness to it. Then the last 15 minutes goes all to hell as Alan Alda gets ripped off and we end up having a ridiculous brawl and a whole bunch of f-bombs out of nowhere. Completely out-of-place and waaaay innappropriate for this movie. Turns a not good movie into a bad one. 3/10.
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