Review of Dedication (2007) by Marie-Pier D — 11 Jan 2012

Henry Roth (Billy Crudup) is a successful children book author who has a lot of problems that he is unable to deal with that comes from his childhood. Tom Wilkinson (Rudy Holt) is his Illustrator along with best/only friend/father figure.

Regretfully Tom dies from a tumor and Henry is left to write one last children book. But without Tom Henry is having an incredibly hard time doing so and that's when Lucy Reilly (Mandy Moore) comes into play.

She is also an illustrator and is hired to help Henry with his final book. This movie like many others who follow a writer and his pursuit to a book is a weird one. Manly because all of the characters seem out of this world and clinically insane.

However once you get past that layer you start to understand the simplicity of such a wonderful script. I found Mandy Moore and Billy Crudup to do a wonderful job at portraying their characters. The reason why I gave this movie 3 stars is because I found it to be touching but it never had any wow moments for me until the very end, and by end I mean last 15ish minutes of the movie.

Worth seeing? I say yes.