Wakefield
2016
**
Director: Robin Swicord
Cast: Bryan Cranston, Jennifer Garner, Beverly D’Angelo, Jason O’Mara, Ian Anthony Dale, Alexander Zale, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Isaac Leyva, Ellery Sprayberry, Victoria Bruno
One day, Howard Wakefield, a successful lawyer and family man, experiences an existential crisis and retreats into the attic of his own garage, secretly observing his wife and daughters. This wacky and intriguing, but highly implausible, premise cannot sustain a full-length feature. Bryan Cranston is left carrying the film on his shoulders, but the problem is his character is thoroughly unpleasant. Robin Swicord's screenplay is based on E. L. Doctorow's 2008 short story, which draws inspiration from an 1835 Nathaniel Hawthorne tale.
