Comedy, Romance, Drama  •  2025  •  103 min  •  Adults (18+)

The Best You Can (2025)

The Best You Can poster

The Best You Can (2025)


Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Leans Progressive

Viewer Rating
6.9

Overview

A buttoned-up New York urologist navigates her older husband's dementia while an unlikely bond forms with a perpetually underachieving security guard. The real-world reunion of Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick adds an off-screen layer that the film clearly leans into. The story is personal rather than political: aging, imperfect family bonds, and human connection in the absence of easy answers. Family structures here are messy and evolving rather than idealized, which nudges the film slightly progressive on that axis. Everything else stays firmly in neutral territory. No ideology, no systemic argument, just ordinary people dealing with time, loss, and the occasional inconvenient attraction. The Neutral label fits a film that prefers feelings over positions.


Starring Cast

Kevin Bacon  •   Kyra Sedgwick  •   Judd Hirsch


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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Center

Primary

Political: Center
Confidence: High

The film's core focus is personal relationships, aging, dementia, and finding human connection amid individual setbacks, with no engagement in ideological debates or systemic critiques; the neutral personal-problem framing and solution through everyday resilience anchor the centrist rating.

Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: High

The movie features a primarily white lead cast in original roles alongside visible diversity among supporting players. Its story explores personal relationships, aging, and unexpected connections without framing traditional identities negatively or centering DEI concepts.

Secondary

Family Values: Leans Progressive
Confidence: High

The film centers on a May-December marriage strained by the husband's dementia and a father's efforts to reconnect with his estranged adult daughter, while an unlikely friendship between the leads develops into a romantic entanglement that disrupts their existing lives; family bonds are shown as imperfect and evolving through personal growth and change rather than idealized traditional structures.

LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Low

The film contains no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes.

Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low

The film contains no identifiable transgender characters or themes. It centers on a romantic dramedy about a urologist navigating her older husband's dementia and forming an unexpected connection with a security guard.

Female Combat: N/R

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Low

Original romantic comedy featuring newly created characters with no adaptations, remakes, or legacy figures from prior canon or history.

Race Swap: No
Confidence: High

Original screenplay with no source material, prior films, or established characters. All named roles are newly created for this film, so no race swaps occur.

Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: Low

Not depicted in the film.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

6.9

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
6.3
The Movie Database logo
7.0

Critic Ratings

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8.7
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5.5

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