Nobody’s Fool would be another Lifetime movie for men or a CBS Sunday night movie if it wasn’t for the cast. My main problem is with the story. Sully is a reliable, albeit ornery and down on his luck, fixture in the town-patron saint to the elderly, the disabled & the neglected housewife. He also has no relationship with his adult son or grandchildren because he left his wife when he was a much younger man. Until Thanksgiving, then suddenly he is awesome, loving & filled with wisdom & love. Rarely if ever does life work like that. Chances are if you leave your family, you’re not much of a helper in other areas. Even family men can be selfish and not part of their communities so this seemed like a peculiar Hollywood concoction. The filmmakers should have abandoned the father-son-grandson storyline and made Sully an elderly, committed bachelor because then the contrast between Sully’s manner and his actions and place in the community would have been more intriguing and less absurd. Also if Sully was played by anyone than Paul Newman, no one would buy that a hot neglected wife would want to run away with a destitute old dude in theory. He was nice to her, but not THAT nice. Just no. The late, great Phillip Seymour Hoffman appears briefly as a cop who poorly tries to rein in some of Sully’s antics. I am also not keen on Hollywood being amused by old people behaving badly and implicitly castigate anyone who tries to maintain some order.