Personal Effects has Ashton Kutcher leaving a promising athletic wrestling
scholarship to abruptly go home after his sister is murdered. He wants to be with
his mother Kathy Bates during their mourning period. Something that both are
not dealing with in the best manner possible.
Kutcher also meets the older Michelle Pfeiffer who has a teenage son Spencer Hudson whom she is trying to mainstream in the public school. He's a handful and it is Hudson's character whom we are seeing the film through his eyes as he narrates.
Pfeiffer's husband was killed in a drunken stupid barroom incident that got taken outside and became fatal. Kutcher's sister might not have been the idealized person he makes her out to be in death. The one accused of her murder is one of her many boyfriends.
From promising college wrestler Kutcher in order to make ends meet dons a chicken outfit and passes out handbills for a Kentucky Fried Chicken like place. It's where Pfeiffer first meets him.
The inevitable happens, the two have common ground and that's the basis for a lot of romances. Kutcher also develops a relationship with Hudson and interests and coaches him in wrestling where he proves to be good.
The film ends on a nebulous note and you can decide for yourself whether Pfeiffer and Kutcher have a future. Personal Effects is about real people dealing with grief. We all have to at some point and for as many people as there are on planet earth there's another method for dealing with grief.
See if these two strike a familiar note in your life.
Kutcher also meets the older Michelle Pfeiffer who has a teenage son Spencer Hudson whom she is trying to mainstream in the public school. He's a handful and it is Hudson's character whom we are seeing the film through his eyes as he narrates.
Pfeiffer's husband was killed in a drunken stupid barroom incident that got taken outside and became fatal. Kutcher's sister might not have been the idealized person he makes her out to be in death. The one accused of her murder is one of her many boyfriends.
From promising college wrestler Kutcher in order to make ends meet dons a chicken outfit and passes out handbills for a Kentucky Fried Chicken like place. It's where Pfeiffer first meets him.
The inevitable happens, the two have common ground and that's the basis for a lot of romances. Kutcher also develops a relationship with Hudson and interests and coaches him in wrestling where he proves to be good.
The film ends on a nebulous note and you can decide for yourself whether Pfeiffer and Kutcher have a future. Personal Effects is about real people dealing with grief. We all have to at some point and for as many people as there are on planet earth there's another method for dealing with grief.
See if these two strike a familiar note in your life.