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Evening
Focus Features
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for some thematic elements, sexual material, a brief accident scene and language
Starring
Claire Danes,
Toni Collette,
Vanessa Redgrave,
Patrick Wilson,
Hugh Dancy, Natasha Richardson,
Mamie Gummer, Eileen Atkins,
Meryl Streep,
and
Glenn Close
Evening is a deeply emotional film that illuminates the timeless love which binds mother and daughter - seen through the prism of one mother’s life as it crests with optimism, navigates a turning point, and ebbs to its close. (Focus Features)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Susan Minot (also novel)
Michael Cunningham
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Lajos Koltai
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 25, 2007
Theatrical: June 29, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
117 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
The strength of the screenplay and acting provide a satisfying, although not overwhelming, two hours of romance, drama, and tragedy.

75
Chicago Tribune
Jessica Reaves
The film, like the book, is clear-eyed without being clinical, reflective but never maudlin.

75
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
It resonates with gleaming ferocity as it unspools a story of regret, longing and resolution in two generations of women.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The constant shifting between today and years ago is, in and of itself, powerful.

67
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
It's like a Harlequin romance trying to pass itself off as something deeper and more profound.

63
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Whatever Evening is saying about life, death, and guilt isn't terribly new or interesting.

63
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
It paints its world in pastels, but the subject cries out for vivid colors.

63
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Susan Minot’s resplendent novel of a dying woman…stumbles on its way to the screen.

63
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Rather than concentrate on Ann's disappointed infatuation and providing a satisfactory reason for its failure, Minot and, one suspects, Cunningham in particular, chose to flesh out the character of Buddy.

60
Variety
Justin Chang
Individual moments are not without their felicitous touches -- mainly due to the cast, which is rich to the point of improbability.

60
Chicago Reader
Staff (not credited)
Despite the show-offy cast, it took me a while to warm to these people and their self-consciously idyllic settings--as well as to the slick direction of former cinematographer Lajos Koltai--but I was eventually won over.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Evening is so distanced from the emotions of the story that it never breathes on its own.

58
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
For all the creaminess of the sets and costumes, every character talks as if she is still made out of written words, not flesh, and each woman's struggles feel about as important as a tea dance.

50
Premiere
Karl Rozemeyer
A mistake was made: Evening is a book that would have been best left on the page.

50
Film Threat
Stina Chyn
Evening”has so much going for it. A great cast, amazing visuals, and solid directing throughout. So why did I leave the film saying aloud to the parking lot, "I didn't like it."

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
The characters, full of blue-blood archness and angst, are partial to self-conscious speechifying.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Evening might be the most shocking waste of natural resources since the despoiling of the Amazon rain forest.

50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Evening is a case study in how a subtly evocative book can elude the most well-intentioned filmmakers and some of our finest actors.

50
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
The film is based on a novel by Susan Minot--one of those books where the author doesn't deign to put dialogue in quotation marks for fear of dispelling the dreamlike mood. It works on paper, but Minot, who shares credit for the adaptation with fellow novelist Michael Cunningham, doesn't understand that screenwriting is the art of taking away.

50
The New Yorker
David Denby
This is one of the rare movies that are too sensitive for their own good.

50
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
What a cast but what a disappointment.

50
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The performances, especially by Hugh Dancy as a sexually confused rich kid, are overwrought, and the script, which Michael Cunningham ("The Hours") wrote in collaboration with Minot, is slack.

50
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
High-grade cheese, the sort of highly pitched melodrama that in the 1950s would have been the stuff of a lurid, lavishly staged Douglas Sirk picture.

50
Village Voice
Ella Taylor
Parked uneasily between sensitive indie and studio chick-flick, Lajos Koltai's Evening makes star-studded hash of Susan Minot's beautifully written, if emotionally constricted, novel.

50
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Evening feels like one of those devil's-candy productions that aim to bring artistry to a large audience, specifically a large audience of adult women who don't often go to the movies. Even considering it in that light, I found it miscalculated and overcooked.

42
Portland Oregonian
M. E. Russell
The uneven filmmaking renders Minot's ideas impossibly trite.

40
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
For all of its class-act bona fides, Evening lurches between the morose and the sentimental, with occasional incursions into the absurd.

38
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
There are few things more depressing than a weeper that doesn't make you weep.

30
Time
Richard Schickel
Rarely have so many gifted women labored so tastefully to bring forth such a wee, lockjawed mouse.

30
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Doesn’t seem as if it would translate easily to the big screen. It hasn't.

25
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
Evening proves that there are such things as mistakes, by featuring two hours of bad choices and half-executed ideas.

25
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Vanessa Redgrave spends Evening dying, and so does Evening.

20
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Redgrave still manages to inspire awe, yet a poetically prosaic moment like the one in which she goes chasing after a butterfly is enough to throw a net over the whole thing.


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