The Company You Keep (2013)

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Sharon Solarz (Susan Sarandon) turns herself into the FBI. She was a long time Weatherman (SDS) fugitive that was involved in bank robbery decades ago where a person was killed. This sets off a chain of events that ripples through the other fugitives of the group, particularly NY attorney Jim Grant (Robert Redford) who for some reason never made it to Putney. Jim has a daughter (kudos to Jackie Evancho) and goes on the lam. He becomes the attention of a national man hunt and is also pursued by Albany reporter Ben Shepard (Shia LaBeouf) who broke the story. Ben discovers that this saga has layers.The characters are not only well developed, but they evolve within the film. There is a slightly layered mystery. We get clues about each layer prior to it being revealed. The film utilizes the 60's movement as background with the expected speeches, but also looks at the human side of things which are not as black and white. Mildly heart warming too.The film has a few slow scenes, one that comes to mind is the jail interview of Solarz. But that should not deter any 60's child from enjoying a film about growing up and changing responsibilities.Parental Guide: F-bombs. No sex or nudity. Is it possible to elude the FBI for 40 years? Google: Leo Burt.

Mr. Redford had a message here that has never been heard.

The Company You Keep stars Robert Redford (Jim Grant) as a public-interest lawyer and widower living quietly with young daughter Isabel in the Upstate New York town of Saugerties. Quiet for him turns to upheaval with the capture of Sharon Solarz (Susan Sarandon), the most-wanted radical Weatherman fugitive who has been living underground. Aggressive Albany reporter Ben (Shia LaBeouf), using his connection to former college friend and junior FBI agent Diana (Anna Kendrick), gets access to Sharon and clues to Grant, another fugitive, who lives under an assumed name. The Company You Keep is relatively a slow paced political drama but within the final act, the film does pick up and becomes an entertaining watch. Surrounding with a great cast, the film succeeds at that aspect as there are many characters given small roles.

Nick Sloan (Robert Redford) a.k.a. as Jim Grant, a former Weather Underground member who was involved in a bank robbery in the 70s has assumed another name and went into hiding. This story is true in that there was an activist group call the Weather Underground, they did rob banks, and there were incidents of violence. Sloan/Grant has a problem, one of his former Underground members has been arrested. As a single father he wants his young daughter to be safe and that's where the story begins. For those who were not of age during this time frame it a bit of a history lesson, for those who were, it's a reminder of how violence did not accomplish their objectives.Unbelievable cast - Robert Redford, Susan Sarandon, Julie Christie, Nick Nolte, and Sam Elliot to name a few.