Another Movie to Add to the List for Our Classes

Paula Span’s post in the December 10, 2013 New Old Age Blog, In Search of What He’s Owed, reviews the recently released movie, Nebraska.  So true to real life, the main character, played by Bruce Dern, receives a letter that he has won a sweepstakes, and he is determined to go to Nebraska to collect his winnings.  The blog describes the movie this way:

Woody Grant, of Billings, Mont., has a corona of snowy hair, an unexplained limp, a lifelong drinking problem and a shaky connection to reality. When a letter informs him he has won a million bucks, no one seems able to prevent Woody from wandering off along highways to try to claim his supposed prize in Lincoln, Neb. He walks because neither his wife (who calls him a “dumb cluck” — talk about verbal mistreatment) nor his sons will drive him hundreds of miles across the plains for what is so clearly a rip-off.

His son finally decides to drive him to Nebraska, and of course, plot twists occur.  Ms. Span describes the movie as “less about fraud than about hard times, the fate of the American heartland, memory and family.”   If you have seen this movie, what do you think of using it in our classes?