I had the day off Friday and Heather and I went to see St. Vincent. It is a comedy with Bill Murray. Murray plays and old curmudgeon. A curmudgeon on steroids. His new neighbor, Maggie, played by Melissa McCarthy is a single mother of young Oliver. Oliver is kind of shy little shrimp of a kid who needs somebody to take care of him after school. Vincent ends up being the unlikely baby sitter. Vincent gives young Oliver quite an education hanging out at horse racing tracks and bars and with Daka, Vincent’s Russian, well kind of a paid girlfriend who happens to be pregnant, played by Naomi Watts.

In the meantime Oliver is having a hard time fitting into his new parochial school. He has a cool Irish priest, Brother Geraghty,  played perfectly  by Chris O’Dowd but is hounded by the bullies zeroing in on the new kid, who thinks he is Jewish, in a Catholic school.

Vincent also provides a little different sort of mentorship to Oliver. he teaches him how to stand up for himself and takes young Oliver to a nursing him to visit Vincent’s wife who has Alzheimer’s. Oliver also sees how Vincent feeds his big spoiled cat gourmet cat food and eats sardines.

Anyways one thing leads to another as Oliver finds out more about Vincent and I won’t spoil it for you but everything ends well in the end. Vincent doesn’t change much though and that is one reason I loved this movie.

Check out the web site for the movie. Lots of good stuff there. You can even nominate somebody you know for sainthood. Just in case you can’t think of somebody.

I have a suggestion. Saint Yogi of Tulsa, Patron Saint to Hydraulic Frackers.

Oh, yeah the movie is PG13. Not too much here but don’t take the youngins if you don’t want to be explaining what prostitutes are. Just saying.