Three Days in August

Parental Rating: PG-13

Contains: Language    Adult Content    

Jill's Review

Opens December 2, 2016

Runs 97 minutes

Shannon (Mollie Milligan) has summoned her family to a country estate for a three day weekend in order to paint a family portrait. Of course, conflict is inevitable as Mollie has invited both her adoptive parents John (Barry Bostwick) and Maureen (Mariette Hartley) and the woman who gave her up for adoption Maggie (Meg Foster). As they sit together for the portrait, old resentments surface and new issues are revealed.  Can Shannon finish the portrait before further psychological damage is done?

This movie was very average. The plot was fairly predicatable from the beginning. Nothing about it makes it stand out from the crowd. The acting was fine and it was gorgeously filmed in Texas. I was a little upset that after the whole film about a family portrait, that the finished painting was never shown. But - stay for the credits and you can watch the real artist as she paints the portrait and it is finally revealed. If you don't have anything else to do, this movie is ok for a matinee. Otherwise, I would skip it.

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