The film is adapted from the Canadian writer Mordecai Richler1997's biographical novel of the same name. The leading actor Paul Giamatti won the Best Actor Award at the 68th Golden Globe Awards. Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti Paul Giamatti) is a TV director and hockey enthusiast. Drinking, smoking, and vulgar speech all followed him. At the age of 65, he began to look back on his life. He has met different women: his first wife Clara (Rachel Lee Pfeiffer Rachelle Lefevre) believes in the soul of freedom. The second Mrs. P (Minnie Driver Minnie Driver) is a wealthy Jew. The third wife Miriam (Rosamond Parker Rosamund Pike) is beautiful and virtuous. Paul's relationship with his father Issy (Dustin Hoffman Dustin Hoffman) seems to lack a real kinship. In his twilight years, he recalled the past and what kind of emotion it would be.
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