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Watch: Reign Over Me 2007 123movies, Full Movie Online – Alan Johnson has everything he needs to get through life: a good job, a beautiful and loving wife, and their wonderful children. Yet he feels isolated because he finds having a hard-working job and managing a family too much to handle and has no one to talk to about it. Charlie Fineman, on the other hand, doesn’t have a job or a family. He used to have both until a terrible loss, and the grief caused him to quit his job and isolate himself from everyone around him. As it turns out, Alan and Charlie were roommates in college, and a chance encounter one night rekindles the friendship they shared. But when Charlie’s problems become too much to deal with, Alan is determined to help Charlie come out of his emotional abyss..
Plot: A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.
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Ratings:

	7.4/10 Votes: 97,160
	64% | RottenTomatoes
	61/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 893 Popularity: 15.253 | TMDB

Reviews:

Remarkable film about Grief, Family, and Friendship
This film screened last night at Austin’s Paramount theater as part of the SXSW Film Festival. We were graced with the presence of director Mike Binder and stars Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle who took audience questions after the film. It is a remarkable and powerful film about what it is like to lose yourself and begin to find your way back. The performances are phenomenal and the story manages to be both tragic and funny in a way that is all too rare. (The trailer for the film tries a little too hard to emphasize the comedic aspects.)

This is a breakout role for Adam Sandler. While he has begun to transition to more dramatic roles with Punch-Drunk Love and Spanglish, this role is a significant step forward for him as a dramatic actor. He deserves an Oscar nomination as he continues down to transition to more dramatic roles as Tom Hanks did and Jim Carrey is also doing. In this role, he seemed to be trying to channel Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. Although playing an autistic man is certainly very different than Sandler’s traumatized character, both characters for different reasons are trapped in their own worlds of child-like isolation and confusion.

Don Cheadle’s performance is less surprising, but just as good. After Hotel Rwanda and Crash, we’ve come to expect remarkable nuanced performances from Cheadle. He has the qualities of sincerity and honesty that comes through in this role. But he, too, is also broken and struggling if not in the such profound ways as Sandler’s character. Cheadle is struggling with difficulties in both his marriage and in his professional life as a dentist. Together the characters played by Cheadle and Sandler struggle to heal each other in the way that true friends often do (in a way that reminds me of Matt Damon and Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting). They are both searching for that part of the themselves that they have lost and trying to find again.

Reign over Me is one of the best major studio films to be released this year. The soundtrack, which is almost another character in the plot is wonderful. The filming in the streets of New York – a city that suffered a great tragedy and has also had to heal itself – is also quite beautiful. The supporting roles by Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler, Saffron Burrows (in a very odd role), Donald Sutherland, and Mike Binder himself are all quite good.

Writer/Director Mike Binder has really delivered a story that so many will be able to connect with on numerous levels. This is a story about grief, family, healing, male friendship, mental health, and the meaning of love. Reign over Me does not disappoint. The film is almost hypnotic as it draws you into the lives of its characters. Hollywood would have a much better reputation if it made more character-driven charming films like Reign over Me.

The best lesser picture an actor could make
Adam Sandler plays a character he most likely would’ve sneered at in his younger years. His character is the scruffy, delusional Charlie Fineman, who lost his parents at a young age and lost his wife, children, and dog in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Ever since then, he has reduced himself to an anti-social pariah who has mentally shut down, wanders around the cold streets of New York, and has cut off all ties with people who knew his family.

Charlie is clearly in need of rehabilitation, but his past is closed off to anyone brave enough to ask for information about it. He is found driving a motorized scooter through town by local dentist Alan Johnson, who also happens to be Charlie’s former college roommate. Failing to capture his attention during the first encounter, Alan discovers him a few weeks later and sees his mental state is poor and he acts as if he has no memory of him. He soon begins to realize that perhaps Charlie uses this tactic as a response to fear that someone will bring up his past life. When he sees that Alan is quiet about his family’s death, he becomes more welcoming to the idea of companionship.

Mike Binder’s Reign Over Me is a depressingly realistic account of an unexpected tragedy that has left a man in shambles only to be rebounded by reconnecting with an old friend. One wonders why Charlie was not driven to suicide at one point during these difficult years of recovery and, by the end of the film, we question if he’ll ever recover.

Sandler gives a fearless performance as Charlie, proving to us that he can give a perfectly favorable dramatic performance and leaving us question why he doesn’t more often. Don Cheadle, a superb character-actor, immerses himself in the role of Alan, who isn’t as perfectly stable as he’d like to believe. His family is crumbling, his wife (Jada Pinkett-Smith) is frustrated by his recent disregard for her feelings, and he has a patient hellbent on the idea of seducing him.

These subplots cleverly work their way into the film, but writer Binder never loses sight at what is important, which is the relationship between Charlie and Alan. Certain scenes evoke comedy and spur-of-the-moment fun in the mix of the heavily dramatic tone of the film. Take for example the “jam session” between both protagonists. Certain scenes also evoke sadness and calamity in a stronger and viable way. Take for example the courtroom sequence or even the scene where Charlie confronts his past. Tears were shed.

This is one of the lesser Sandler pictures in the studio’s eyes. Its gross was meager and its response, lukewarm – a tragic reaction to a film that I believe is Sandler’s best work. He throws himself into the character of Charlie, forgoing the gross out gags, the woefully unlikable schlub of a hero, and gives us a touching, carefully studied man who is more than down on his luck, but crippled in the game of life. To think Sandler previously played intolerable leads in Happy Gilmore and The Waterboy makes me question his choice to 180, no, 360 his on-screen persona in Reign Over Me. It’s unfortunate the public has yet to truly hail the talents he presents here.

Starring: Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett-Smith, and Liv Tyler. Directed by: Mike Binder.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 4 min (124 min)
Budget 20000000
Revenue 22222308
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama
Director Mike Binder
Writer Mike Binder
Actors Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith
Country United States
Awards 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Panavision Genesis HD Camera, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints)
Film Length 3,400 m (Sweden)
Negative Format Video (HD)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), HDCAM SR (1080p/24) (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic) (Kodak Vision 2383), D-Cinema