If “An Unfinished Life” had been made 10 or 12 years ago, we’d have, rightfully, dismissed it as an intensely earnest, ... Griff (the astute, appealing Becca Gardner), in tow.

Early in An Unfinished Life, 11-year-old Griff Gilkyson pores over a map of America and suggests places she and her mother, Jean, can go to escape an ...

A family drama set in scenic Wyoming foothills, it's about flawed people shambling toward forgiveness of themselves and each other. Well and good, except all of their flaws are old hat and ...

It is Mark Spragg's prose that makes his novel, An Unfinished Life, ... She's 10 and is named Griff for Einar's beloved son. Griff has her father's chin, his way of standing and his Viking heart.

Einar has exiled Jean from his life. Now here she is on his farm with her daughter Griff (Becca Gardner), 11. Jean needs protection from her abusive boyfriend (Damian Lewis).

Filming finished on the movie adaptation of the Mark Spragg novel “An Unfinished Life” back in April of 2003, so what’s it doing just now showing up in theaters? When a movie sits o ...

Learn more about the full cast of An Unfinished Life with news, photos, ... Jean Gilkyson takes her young daughter Griff to the Wyoming ranch of her father-in-law, Einar.

In An Unfinished Life, the latest feel-everyone's-pain melodrama from director Lasse Hallstrom, a large brown bear swipes the movie away from its human co-stars. Though Robert Redford sports ...

An Unfinished Life A ... Since then, Jean has been dragging her 11-year-old daughter Griff (newcomer Becca Gardner) around the country. Her latest boyfriend, Gary ...

Adapted by Mark Spragg and wife Virgina Korus Spragg from his excellent novel, “Life” is a homecoming movie. Jean Gilkyson (Jennifer Lopez, and don’t laugh because she’s really good) and her ...

The telltale moment in “An Unfinished Life,” Lasse Hallstrom’s latest essay in liberal uplift, comes when Robert Redford, in the role of the emotionally damaged old Wyoming rancher Einar Gilkyson, ...

To be fair, “An Unfinished Life,” directed by Lasse Hallstrom, is not as damaged as might be imagined given the months it spent on the Miramax shelf in the wake of that company’s reorganization.