Such slow development. I can't believe Spielberg laid an egg, but then again, everyone has a bad day. Leading up to our decision to abort watching this movie, my wife and I had two previous pauses where we asked one another, "Is this movie going anywhere? Is this movie as bad to you as it is to me?" Anyway, we hung in there until the slow piano part when the painfully obvious subplot finally gets revealed to Sammy. No twists, no turns, just boring 1950s American life of a kid, his family, and his growing passion & skill for making movies, albeit home movies. Perhaps, Spielberg's own story is best told by others so that they can add juicy untruths that he's to sensitive to add himself. Hard pass this one.