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Movies About Estate Planning: “Make Way for Tomorrow”

January 24, 2017Jeffrey A. Cramer Areas of Practice, Estate Planning, General Law, Movies Relating to Estate Planning, Trusts, Wills Foreclosure, Leo McCarey, Make Way for Tomorrow, Movies about Estate Planning
Make Way for Tomorrow

One of the saddest movies of all of time is “Make way for Tomorrow” a 1937 Paramount Production directed by the renowned Leo G. McCarey. The film is a neglected masterpiece, so by all means watch it.  Just make sure you have a box of tissues nearby.  Orson Welles is reported to have said that this film could make a stone cry.  The film stars excellent character actors, Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Thomas Mitchell and Porter Hall.  McCarey won an Oscar for best director that same year for his work on “The Awful Truth.”  When he received his Academy Award, he said:  “You gave it to me for the wrong picture.”

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Estate Planning Goes to the Movies: You’re Not You

June 26, 2015Jeffrey A. Cramer Estate Planning, Movies Relating to Estate Planning, Newsletter advance healthcare directives, death, Estate Planning
Advance Healthcare Directives

2014’s You’re Not You stars Hilary Swank as a 35-year-old classical pianist who is stricken with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, aka Lou Gehrig’s disease). This multiple-hanky-needed drama is naturally sad, although fairly realistic and extremely well-acted. ALS is a disease that travels in only one direction: downhill. There is no cure, not even much palliative care that can be offered. So, yes, in one respect, the movie is about watching Hilary Swank’s character die.

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Movies About Estate Planning: Alive Inside

March 24, 2015March 25, 2015Jeffrey A. Cramer Estate Planning, Movies Relating to Estate Planning, Newsletter Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, Estate Planning
iPods for dementia

Alive Inside is another captivating movie about a subject that regularly touches our practice as estate planners: dementia. This documentary follows social worker Dan Cohen, founder of the nonprofit organization Music and Memory, as he chronicles the reactions of memory-loss patients being reintroduced to their favorite music through the use of iPods.

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Movies About Estate Planning: The Art of the Steal

March 6, 2015Jeffrey A. Cramer Estate Planning, Movies Relating to Estate Planning, Trusts, Wills Estate Planning, trust, Trusts, will, Wills
Art Gallery

This fascinating documentary details the struggle for control of Dr. Albert C. Barnes’ private collection of modern and post-impressionist art, valued at 40-50 billion dollars. Even if you haven’t heard of Dr. Barnes or his phenomenal art collection, this film is a must-see.

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MOVIE REVIEW: “LULLABY”

October 16, 2014Jeffrey A. Cramer Estate Planning, Living Will, Movies Relating to Estate Planning end-of-life, life support, Living Will

Available on Netflix, “Lullaby” is a movie by Andrew Levitas about a dysfunctional family that is reunited by end-of-life issues.  Jonathan is a young man living on the opposite coast from his wealthy New York family.  Although they have been estranged for years, Jonathan agrees to visit his terminally ill father when he learns that he wishes to be taken off life support within 48 hours.

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Movies About Estate and Legacy Planning: Nebraska

March 17, 2014Jeffrey A. Cramer Movies Relating to Estate Planning Estate Planning, gift, inherit, inheritance, legacy, movie review, Nebraska

One of 2014‘s Academy Award nominees for Best Picture, Nebraska, touches on some estate and legacy planning issues.

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RELATIONSHIP SERIES – PART 1

March 7, 2014Jeffrey A. Cramer Estate Planning, Movies Relating to Estate Planning

The poignant documentary, “Bridegroom” written and directed by Linda Bloodworth–Thomason (who created and wrote the television series “Designing Women”), vividly illustrates the human cost of a same-sex couple’s failure to do any type of estate planning.  It tells the story of Tom and Shane, two young men in a loving, committed, 6-year-long relationship that was tragically cut short by an accident.  The heartbreaking tale of what happened after the accident proves just how critical appropriate estate planning documents are for same-sex and other unmarried couples.  Click here to watch an overview of the film on YouTube.

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MOVIES ABOUT ESTATE PLANNING: THE DESCENDANTS

April 10, 2012Jeffrey A. Cramer Estate Planning, Movies Relating to Estate Planning advance healthcare directives, Estate Planning, Estate Planning Attorney, estate planning lawyer, Living Will, Rule Against Perpetuities, “The Descendents”

The movie “The Descendants”, which was nominated for five Academy Awards and won the award for best writing-adapted screenplay, is one of the best movies to tackle estate planning issues in quite some time. The movie contains a thorough discussion of advance healthcare directives, living wills, and their real life application. The movie’s lead character, Matt King, played by George Clooney, is the trustee of a trust which will soon come to an end because of an arcane rule of law known as “The Rule Against Perpetuities.” The movie generally is about the fracturing and healing which takes place within families. What is interesting to us is that the plot is wrapped around actual estate planning issues. [Spoiler alert, if you haven’t seen the film, you may to want to read the rest of the newsletter later.]

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MOVIE REVIEW TITLED “DADDY’S DYIN’…WHO’S GOT THE WILL (1990)

January 18, 2012February 24, 2012Jeffrey A. Cramer Movies Relating to Estate Planning Estate Planning, Wills

In our never ending search to find good estate planning related cinema, we watched Daddy’s Dyin’, Who’s Got the Will, a 1990 comedy featuring a good cast, including Beau Bridges, Beverly D’Angelo, Tess Harper and Judge Reinhold. In this dark comedy, bickering siblings are reunited at their deep in the heart of Texas home as their father lies on his deathbed. The siblings tear apart the house looking for the Will to see who is “in” and who is “out”. They fight, argue, joke and occasionally sing. Not a great film, but some amusing moments. When the Will is finally found, no additional drama is created. This family would be dysfunctional under any circumstances, but the fact that their father did not share his estate plan with them only added to the dysfunction.

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MOVIE REVIEW: SUMMER HOURS (L’heure d’été)(A Family Philanthropy Opportunity Missed)

January 6, 2010Jeffrey A. Cramer Movies Relating to Estate Planning

Summer Hours is a French film available with English sub-titles.  Although it is a very French film, the estate planning issues which play out are universal. 

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