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Goodbye Solo
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86
Seraphine
84
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83
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83
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82
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
82
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82
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82
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
81
Il Divo
81
Beaches of Agnes, The
80
Food, Inc.
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78
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74
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74
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74
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74
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70
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70
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70
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69
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69
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66
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66
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65
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65
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64
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64
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63
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62
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62
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60
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59
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58
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58
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57
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57
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57
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56
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56
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55
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54
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54
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54
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52
Quiet Chaos
50
Management
48
Alien Trespass
45
Whatever Works
42
Little Ashes
42
Tennessee
40
Limits of Control, The
40
Paris 36
38
Gigantic
36
Life is Hot in Cracktown
35
New York
28
Big Shot-Caller, The
28
Surveillance
22
What Goes Up
18
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16
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xx
Call of the Wild
xx
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xx
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Amati Girls, The
Providence Entertainment
MPAA RATING: PG for mild language and brief sensuality
Starring
Cloris Leachman,
Mercedes Ruehl,
Dinah Manoff,
Sean Young,
Lee Grant,
Mark Harmon,
and
Paul Sorvino
A warm, emotional story centered around four sisters and the relationship they share with their recently widowed mother. While trying to help her cope, each of the sisters begins to understand what is missing in their own lives and relationships, and the lessons they learn affect the entire family. (Providence Entertainment)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Anne De Salvo
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Anne De Salvo
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 4, 2001
Video: September 4, 2001
Theatrical: January 19, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
91 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
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67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Plays like a series of well-done but disconnected acting-class sketches, filled with a huge cast of first-rate actors whose careers have all gone into decline.
52
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
The movie is as schmaltzy as I'd feared, and yet De Salvo does elicit some nice performances from her ensemble cast.
50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A soggy cannoli of a domestic dramedy.
50
Village Voice
Nico Baumbach
An earnest ensemble weeper I'd at least feel comfortable seeing with my grandmother.
50
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
Although DeSalvo performs the miracle of making these characters seem like people we actually know, occasionally her delivery definitely makes us wish we didn't.
50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
Rather like listening to Vladimir Horowitz play "Chopsticks."
50
Miami Herald
Curtis Morgan
Annie DeSalvo, a first-time director and screenwriter, can't escape the made-for-TV feel but does manage to give her cast, mostly once-big names fallen from grace and popularity, flashes of humanity between lessons about various saints and sermons disguised as dialogue.
40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Smacks of a certain kind of TV movie filled with pious uplift, even as it makes token concessions to contemporary lifestyles.
38
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Only a memorably commanding Ruehl transcends the limitations of her two-dimensional character.
38
Chicago Tribune
John Petrakis
All the obligatory plot elements are there. Love and loss, anger and forgiveness, illness and death. But they never flow together to make a coherent story. Instead, they just pop up whenever the script is in trouble. Which is all the time.
30
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Has plenty of warmth, affection and conventional wisdom, but too much of the time it plays out in routine fashion with moments of contrivance.
25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
We all know how actors overact when they play Italians, and we all know how actors overact when they play brain-damaged characters, so just imagine Knight's performance as a brain-damaged Italian American.
25
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie should be praying to St. Jude, patron saint of lost causes. Maybe he could perform a miracle and turn this into a cable offering, so no one has to buy a ticket to see it.
20
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
The cast, which includes Cloris Leachman as the sisters' mother and Paul Sorvino, Jamey Sheridan and Mark Harmon as their various men, emote like pros, even as they deplete any audience goodwill left over from past triumphs.
20
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
The characters seem both reduced and idealized, and the plot has turns a dispassionate dramatist would avoid.
20
Variety
Robert Koehler
Most discomforting of all is the sight of world-class actors stuck in such threadbare material.
10
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Although the concept seems promising enough, it is undone by disastrous casting decisions and an utter lack of ensemble unity.
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