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Head Full of Honey
An elderly man with Alzheimer's moves in with his son's family to cope with the confusion of day-to-day life in a drama directed by Til Schweiger, which is an English language remake of his 2014 film Honig Im Kopf. Amadeus (Nick Nolte) is devastated by the death of his wife Margaret. At the funeral, Amadeus's son Nick (Matt Dillon) grows concerned about the old man's frailty and insists his father moves in with him, wife Sarah (Emily Mortimer) and daughter Matilda (Sophie Lane Nolte). The family quickly surmises that Amadeus's faltering memory can be attributed to a chronic neurodegenerative disease that will ultimately lead to his death. Young Matilda doesn't know what she can do to her help grandfather in his hour of greatest turmoil until a kindly doctor (Jake Weber) advises the little girl to "step inside his world, so he feels needed". Consequently, she encourages Amadeus to reminisce about falling in love with his wife and Matilda discovers that her grandparents began their epic romance in St Mark's Square in Venice. Matilda suggests a family holiday to Italy in case the sights and smells of Venice jolt Amadeus's memory and afford him a few brief moments of beautiful clarity.
