Everybody's Fine

Well the point being everyone is not fine. The four children just tell their father, played by Robert De Niro, that they are rich, successful and happy due to the constant pressure he put on them as children and the expectations he currently has for them. Throughout the course of the movie one of the children, David "The Artist" is missing, the siblings believe him to be in a Mexican prison, and De Niro's character Frank Goode, is constantly worried about him. Frank's four children are all fine as the title suggests (well, save David) but not great, not rich, and lie to their father to keep his expectations at bay. They are realistic characters, and for that I appreciated the movie because what family doesn't have its share of troubles, but I was always worried about Frank about what he was setting himself up for and what he would inevitably discover. I was left wondering what happened to David, how he ended up in Mexico in the first place and I also wish the audience could have seen more of what went on in the lives of the siblings outside of the lies they told their father. But, it was Frank's story and we can only know what he knows. It's a sad movie, it has its plot holes and awkward moments, but mostly it was a man trying to find the family he'd lost and at the same time discover the family he thought he had wasn't exactly real.