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Labor Day ladles on melodrama
Book-based film too thin for deep story
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Kate Winslet and Gattlin Griffith portray a mother and son who are held hostage by Josh Brolin’s character in “Labor Day.”
The funniest unintentional laugh in “Labor Day” is the way adaptor / director Jason Reitman treats this eye-rolling, melodramatic romance novel as if he’s got his hands on the works of Dostoevsky or Tolstoy. A genteel escaped convict hides out with a grieving divorcee and offers another chance at love? It’s “The Prisons of Madison County.”