Don't feel sorry for yourself. Don't be bitter. Don't shut people out. A crotchety, alcoholic, wheelchair-bound coot played on cruise control by Morgan Freeman learns these recycled lessons in a pastel-colored, embroidered wall-hanging of a drama directed by Rob Reiner. Lucky old coot the single mother next door is pretty Virginia Madsen, and she's raising three cute daughters in a kind of 21st-century Mayberry. C

