With his hangdog moustache and plaintive air of submission Doc is easily the most subtle and affecting of the film's characters, Carell reminding us of
his excellent dramatic chops in the likes of Little Miss Sunshine, Foxcatcher and The Way Way Back.
Superlative work is rather expected from the likes of Davis, Stone (whom it is good to see show off her
dramatic chops in a high - profile film after her
excellent work in the virtually unseen — and frankly overall forgettable — Paper Man), Howard, Sissy Spacek (as her lush of a mother), Allison Janney (as Stone's cancer - stricken mom) and Cicely Tyson (as Stone's family's former maid), so perhaps making an even more memorable impression is the work by two less familiar stars.