The Best You Can is the first movie in 20 years that real life couple Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedwick starred in together, and their chemistry makes it worth watching.
The story is about Cynthia, a urologist married to a man about 30 years her senior who is beginning to suffer from dementia. One night, she's awakened by a burglar in her home. A neighbor must have reported the break-in, Stan, a neighborhood security officer, arrives just in time to see the burglar running away. He climbs through the window to check on things, only to be nearly hit by Cynthia, who’s ready to defend herself. After checking out the apartment, Stan asks to use her bathroom and while Cynthia is talking his ear off, Stan has to ask her several times if she can stop talking and finally says he’s been having trouble urinating. Cynthia tells him she's a urologist and gives him her card. Thus begins their unlikely friendship.
What follows are late night texts between the two, filled with them joking around and sharing personal things about themselves. Their banter is fun and easy.
There’s also a subplot with Stan trying to connect with his 20 year-old daughter. While I liked parts of it, it didn't really feel necessary for the movie.
In the end, while I didn’t love this movie, I enjoyed it and would recommend it. It also makes you think about what are the moral obligations of connecting with a new friend and forming a flirtatious friendship while your partner is mentally declining?
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