Nothing Much Happens "5 Flights Up"

5 Flights Up (2014)

Rated PG-13

Starring Morgan Freeman, Diane Keaton, Cynthia Nixon

Directed by Richard Loncraine

The Story: 

Alex and Ruth Carver (Freeman & Keaton) have lived in their apartment for decades. However, they're getting older, and the prospect of marathoning those 5 flights of stairs is becoming more daunting with each passing year. With the help of a realtor friend (Nixon) they're going to put their apartment up for sale and hopefully find a new one that they like as well.

Yep, that's it.

There's your movie.

There are also 2 additional subplots that provide the drama and tension of the movie:

Their dog needs surgery and may not survive!
There is a possible terrorist in town who is making the apartment selling/buying experience harder than it should be.

We are treated to a series of flashbacks of Alex and Ruth when they are just starting out to give some background to their life together, and how they made that apartment their home.

But essentially, nothing really happens throughout the movie.

If not for Morgan Freeman who gets to do some voice-over narration (The Manhattan Redemption!) to the story, this film would have a much lower rating.

Freeman makes everything better.

Final Grade: C