Collateral Beauty

On Tuesday, January 17, 2017, I went to see the movie Collateral Beauty featuring Will Smith, Helen Mirren, Keira Knightley, Kate Winslet, Ed Norton, Michael Peña, Naomie Harris and Jacob Latimore.

The movie is about Howard, played by Will Smith, who lost a child due to a rare form of cancer.  This was three years ago.  However, today, we see that he still has not gotten over the loss of his daughter and because of it, his work suffers.  Being a high profile owner of a marketing company, over the years of him dealing with the loss of his daughter and not continuing the relationships with the clients, the company has lost more and more of the accounts.  The dilemma is that there is another company who has offered to buy them over, and they would be able to keep their creative license.  However, since Howard is the major shareholder, he would have the final say.

Whit, who lives with his mother suffering from Alzeimer's, realizes that an approach that he does with his mother might work with Howard.  Whit lives the reality that his mother lives, instead of forcing her to see reality.  So, he decides that they hire actors to play the parts of death, love and time, so that they answer Howard's letters personally.  (Howard had written letters earlier in the movie to these three entities)

What happens next?  You'll have to watch the movie to find out.  I enjoyed this one.