DVD Review: Jules

Jules
(DVD Jules)

One night Milton (Ben Kingsley) hears loud splintering sounds in his backyard. He goes out to check and finds a space alien has crash landed in his flower beds.

 

Milton (Ben Kingsley) is a retired widower living alone in the family home. He’s having memory issues that are probably developing into some kind of dementia and potentially a loss of his independence. His daughter wants him to move out of the house as she recognizes he needs assistance, but he is refusing to do so, and their relationship is shaky at best. He also doesn’t get along all that well with his senior neighbors.

 

Jules is a sweet, quiet, personal film about three lonely senior citizens who end up banding together to aid a space alien — who is now named Jules. All three seniors are struggling in some way as they become friends while they realize The Government is searching for Jules. They work together to assist the alien in trying to escape from the Men in Black. Low-key yet also poignant and humorous.

 

Academy Award winner Sir Ben Kingsley stars as Milton, with Jane Curtin as Joyce, and Tony Award winner Harriet Harris as Sandy. At only 87 min, this is still a film that will stay with you. An alien film that doesn’t require battles and explosions – more “E.T.” than “Alien.”

 

( Internet Movie Database entry for this film )

 

Recommended by Charlotte M.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service

 

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