"The Namesake" with Kal Penn

I enjoyed the Harold and Kumar movies, and Van Wilder. Kal Penn is a great actor, but his movies have not given him an opportunity to show his talent. he is a great dramatic actor. The Namesake is a beautiful movie, about love between a father and his son, the father and his wife, and his son's journey to accepting himself as a Bengali who is on his own unique journey through life. The father understands his son's journey. The father loves, and is patient. And of course love conquers all, if only in the movies. Not one academy award nomination - hard to grasp. Watch the movie several times, slowly enjoy it. "You want me to say I love you like an American wife?" his wife asks...and there is no need, because she has told him in so many ways. The script is great - the colors in their home are great - overall outstanding film