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Norman - film review

There are weekends when the only sensible thing to do is binge.  Both with food and movies.  We did just that.  The weather outside was dense with soot from fires burning north of us.  No point in being out.  Other than to get some movies and food and hibernate.  Or technically estivate.  People often confuse these terms.  The going to ground during hot spells is Estivate.  Got that? Now - we watched a bunch of films over the two days and I must say the hit rate of decent to great was high.  Some were Swedish in origin.  Some were regular Hollywood. Of the west coast product one stood out called 'Norman'.  It was a disc I picked up after looking at the cast.  I could make out one name - Richard Gere.  Talk about using star power to move merchandise.  This did it.  And it was actually quite entertaining.  Director is Israeli guy that I have never heard of.  Cast is partly Israeli as well ...