The Best You Can

The Best You Can is a warm, bittersweet comedy-drama about two people whose lives unexpectedly intersect at a time when both are dealing with the realities of getting older, complicated relationships, and figuring out what comes next.

The movie stars Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon as Cynthia and Stan (amazing onscreen chemistry) two people living very different lives who meet unexpectedly and form an unlikely friendship. Cynthia is a successful doctor dealing with the difficult reality of her much older husband’s declining health, while Stan is a former police officer working as a security guard and trying to figure out his own life.

What starts as a chance encounter turns into conversations, text messages, laughter, and a connection neither of them was necessarily looking for. And that’s really what I enjoyed about this movie. It’s about relationships, aging, marriage, loneliness, family, friendship, and those unexpected people who sometimes walk into our lives at exactly the right time.

There are funny moments, uncomfortable moments, and some very tender ones. It doesn’t try to make life look perfect. Instead, it reminds us that we’re all just trying to navigate the circumstances we’ve been given and, quite literally, do the best we can.

A little information before watching: The movie is rated R for strong language, sexual references, and some drug use. It includes medical issues and a sad death, so I would recommend it for high-school age and older.

I watched it on Netflix.