(Download Nebraska Movie) The men in Alexander Payne's movies are on a constant journey. In About Schmidt, Jack Nicholson's Warren experiences late-life enlightenment when he travels cross-country to his daughter's wedding. In Sideways, Paul Giamatti and Thomas Hayden Church's characters experience an entire midlife crisis as they explore central California's wine country.

(Nebraska Movie Download) Most recently, George Clooney's Matt King traveled the Hawaiian islands in an attempt to reconnect with his daughters and reconcile with his seriously injured wife in The Descendants. (You have to go back to Payne's first two features, Citizen Ruth and Election, to find female protagonists who were also seen at difficult crossroads.) In the process, Payne has become one of American cinema's most respected chroniclers of male discontent and awakening. If his latest, Nebraska, doesn't alter the formula, it also does so on a more refreshingly modest scale than that of The Descendants.

(Download Nebraska Movie) Starring Bruce Dern as Woody Grant, an alcoholic father staring down a possible future of Alzheimer's disease and assisted living, the film, like its immediate predecessors, tracks an aging male as he travels toward emotional reconciliation. Woody's relationship with his wife (June Squibb) is of the jokingly disrespectful variety, while his two sons, played by Will Forte and Bill Odenkirk, struggle to connect with a man they claim never had much time for them anyway. When Woody receives a bogus sweepstakes invitation to collect $1 million from a magazine company, he becomes determined to trek from his home in Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska in order to secure his winnings.

(Download Nebraska Movie) Wanting a break from his dead-end salesman job, Forte's David agrees, against the will of his mother and brother, to indulge his dad's whim as perhaps one final chance at father-son bonding. When Woody becomes too unruly for David to handle, the two stop off in Woody's hometown of Hawthorne, where family and friends both new and old gather to celebrate and harass the prodigal son. From there, typically Payne-like hijinks ensue: the doofus cousins who chide David for driving too slow, the old women who alternately worship and resent Woody, and the old "friends" who attempt to swindle some cash from Woody's impending payday.

(Download Nebraska Movie) Nebraska will likely be praised for its modest approach to the father/son dynamic and its quietly moving sensibility. The Descendants was, in a sense, a victory lap for Payne, affording him the luxury of broadening his comedic approach and generally indulging his sappier side, and the film accordingly coasted on goodwill despite that fact that it laid many of his most problematic tendencies out on full display. Nebraska doesn't fix his stereotypical small-town characterizations (though, in my experience, having spent much time in the Midwest, I can say he gets closer to reality here than he did in About Schmidt), or his flair for bittersweet third-act harmonization, but it considerably downplays these little predicaments. Ultimately, Payne's films beg the question of whether or not the self-imposed journey of his protagonists have been worth the trip. In the case Nebraska, the trek is one worth embarking on, for both its characters and audience alike.

Alexander Payne has never been one for flashy features and in his latest he tones things all the way down to monochrome, as if his intentions are more bittersweet than ever. It's a fittingly subdued aesthetic for a tale of a man on his last legs, reluctantly forced to confront his past.

(Download Nebraska Movie) Bruce Dern plays Woody Grant, a man who's just won a million dollars - or so he thinks. When he receives postal notification of his big win it's an obvious scam but, still, he's itching to collect. While his credulity is met with irritation by his wife Kate (June Squibb), his son David (Will Forte) understands that he's looking for something to live for and agrees to drive him to Lincoln, Nebraska where the company concerned is based. After a drunken incident puts the brakes on their trip, the duo stop off in Woody's hometown of Hawthorne, where he's reunited with his friends and siblings.

(Download Nebraska Movie) Dern was the deserved recipient of Best Actor at this year's Cannes Film Festival and as Woody he's a poignant picture of booze-fuelled bitterness, confusion and regret. As ever with Payne, the sorrow is shot through with expertly crafted comedy and the balance here is exquisite. The comedian Forte plays it beautifully straight, with most of the humour coming from the absurdity of the men's escapades and Payne's keen eye for the casually ridiculous. And Squibb is particularly good value as the fabulously potty-mouthed Kate, whose salty tongue spices up an otherwise rather gentle film. Moving particularly because it rings heartbreakingly true, Nebraska is one of Payne's finest.

(Download Nebraska Movie) Alexander Payne’s latest is a black and white film focused on a father’s attempts to collect a $1m prize, and, with Payne in the director’s chair, the story is often ponderous but always intriguing.(Watch Nebraska Online) At the centre of the film is Woody (Bruce Dern) whose life has little besides a nagging wife (June Squibb), two sons David (Will Forte) and Ross (Bob Odenkirk), and a drinking problem.Residing in Montana, the film begins with Woody seen walking up the freeway en route to Nebraska, and from here we are taken inside his home life and learn this isn’t his first attempt to claim his prize. Following a bit of chat, David agrees to take his father to Nebraska and they hit the road, much to his mother’s disbelief.

(Download Nebraska Movie) NEBRASKA is an odd film. Payne is a master of telling stories where little unfolds in regards to plot, but a lot happens to the characters. This is no exception as we are taken into the lives of the main players and discover their histories, weaknesses and strengths making you feel a part of their lives even though you spend under two hours in their company. Bob Nelson is on script duty and puts together dialogue full of warmth and the kind of talk only family members have with each other. Nelson gives NEBRASKA its heart and Payne feeds off this with sensitive direction that never rushes the actors and shows the ‘other side’ of America so rarely shown – one that is ravaged by recession and full of emptiness.

Boasting some wonderful performances from Forte, Odenkirk and a hilarious but heartfelt turn from Squibb, this is unquestionably Dern’s film. His softly spoken, hard of hearing Woody is fantastic company and will have you laughing, crying, laughing while crying and everything in-between as he searches for his million dollars and meets some old friends along the way – one of whom is the always fantastic Stacy Keach.

NEBRASKA is a film with everything you could ask for, yet it once again misses the tightness so often lacking in Payne’s work. With the final thirty minutes unravelling the previously taut yarn at a formulaic trudge,(Watch Nebraska Online) this isn’t to say NEBRASKA doesn’t remain wonderful viewing, but frustratingly prevents it from reaching perfection.