$5 a Day, the father-son road trip film starring Alessandro Nivola and Christopher Walken, begins and ends with Ritchie Flynn Parker (Nivola) and his girlfriend Maggie (Amanda Peet) figuring out if they have a relationship, and talking about Ritchie's Dad, Nat (Walken). It's a fairly standard way to give a film a sense of completeness, one that is often boring and feels simplistic, but here it … [Read more...]