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‘The Best You Can’ Review: Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon Bring Warmth and Honesty to a Story About Aging and New Beginnings
While a little contrived at times, Michael J. Weithorn’s unassuming dramedy feels comfortingly sweet thanks to an earned ending and the real-life couple’s natural on-screen ease.
Instead, it feels fairer to acknowledge and praise the lived-in textures that Weithorn fashions, a sense of authenticity that organically emerges thanks in large part to the movie’s real-life couple Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon and their effortless chemistry. Enter Bacon’s ruggedly nonchalant Stan, an aimless private security guard trying to reconnect with and support his talented musician daughter Sammi (a charismatic Brittany O’Grady), while not having much of a life of his own, except for the occasional trysts he has with the young CJ (a wonderful but underutilized Olivia Luccardi). With lovely, music-filled scenes between Stan and Sammi and a cozy atmosphere throughout, “The Best You Can” concludes on a well-earned and comforting note on the many wonders of the agile human mind, as well as the modest surprises that might find us in unexpected places at any age.
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