Nebraska (2013)

  Son of a bitch, I totally forgot to review this movie.  It was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor (Bruce Dern), Best Supporting Actress (June Squibb), Best Cinematography, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.  It didn't win anything but that's okay.

I didn't see it until the weekend after the Oscars, when I was sick, but I could have sworn I wrote a review about it.  Oh well.

David (Will Forte) is kind of at loose ends in his life.  His job is going nowhere, his girlfriend left him, and he's just in a rut.  His brother, Ross (Bob Odenkirk) is being made a local anchorman but David doesn't really have any ambitions.  Then he learns that his father, Woody (Bruce Dern), keeps being picked up by the police for wandering down the highway.  Woody believes that he has won $1,000,000 in a sweepstakes and that he has to travel to Lincoln, Nebraska in order to pick up his winnings.  His wife, Kate (June Squibb), thinks he's an idiot but Woody is determined to get there.  David agrees to drive him from Billings, Montana to Lincoln in order to pacify the old man.  They stop over in Woody's old hometown for a weekend and soon everyone has heard about his windfall, which brings out vultures of every size and shape.

I was not a fan of The Descendants but I found this film to have a lot more charm.  Mostly because of June Squibb, who is flat-out hilarious.