A drama story revolves around, Matt Ryder, a thirty -years old guy who suffers a lot from technology as it ruins his life. His father, Benjamin Ryder, a famous photojournalist who is suffering from terminal cancer and uses his dying wish to join him on a road trip across the country to Kansas, to deliver four old rolls of Kodachrome film to develop them before it locks off for good. Throughout his journey with his father and his father's assistant, Matt's relationship with his father develops clearly.
Kodachrome is a real film, with real, carefully written characters, and a sincerity that feels almost old-fashioned - like the celluloid with which it is made.
Beautifully acted father/son story contains a terrific performance by Jason Sudeikis and an Oscar worthy one from Ed Harris. Please don't forget this one , Academy. It's special and memorable.
Harris, Sudeikis, and Olsen are all great performers, but they're hiking slowly uphill telling a story that doesn't even head-fake towards surprising us.
Harris makes Ben edgier, more self-aware and more impossible to ignore than anyone else would. That kind of integrity, that willingness to be understood as completely dislikable, raises "Kodachrome" to a level it would not reach without him.
What are we to make of director Mark Raso's overtly sincere attempt to tell a tale we've seen a dozen times before? Are we to weep on cue? Or, recoil from its unrelenting obviousness? Well, it's actually a little of both.