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On_Line
Indican Pictures

On_Line reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 36 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.2 out of 10
based on 16 reviews
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Josh Hamilton, Harold Perrineau Jr., Isabel Gillies, John Fleck, Vanessa Ferlito, Eric Millegan, and Liz Owens

On_Line captures a world in which culture intersects with technology and fuses into a new paradigm for personal relationships. (Jed Weintrob)


GENRE(S): Drama  
WRITTEN BY: Andrew Osborne
Jed Weintrob
 
DIRECTED BY: Jed Weintrob  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: February 17, 2004 
Video: February 17, 2004 
Theatrical: June 27, 2003 
RUNNING TIME: 86 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

Winner, Best Feature, 2002 Cinequest San Jose Film Festival

What The Critics Said

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70
Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
A fine example of digital filmmaking, and Weintrob and his co-writer, Andrew Osborne, manage to raise some serious issues regarding the Internet without taking themselves too seriously.
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63
Premiere Laine Ewen
The movie falls flat at the end, unnecessarily linking all of the characters in what seems to be an attempt to show how it really is a small world after all.
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60
The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
Weintrob's background in interactive media keeps the film's technology unusually current, but his predictable tongue-clucking over Internet relationships places him squarely in the Luddite camp.
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60
Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
There's nothing unconventional or daring about On_Line, but considering how cheap it undoubtedly was to make, the acting, writing and direction all stand up pretty well; this is more intelligent and better structured than at least half the Hollywood movies I see.
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50
Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder
Faces the same problem of all sex-themed films, in that cinematic sex is often unsexy.
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50
The New York Times Stephen Holden
Acted with enough zest by its cast to give these not especially endearing people a poignant human dimension.
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50
Boston Globe Janice Page
Weintrob's stylish visuals mimic Web technologies, which succeed in making his characters seem all the more removed from reality. Now if someone would find a way to equip theater seats with a ''delete'' key, we could be rid of them completely.
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50
New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Weintrob's shallow analysis of virtual reality might have been more resonant in the mid-'90s, but he seems well aware that some things are timeless: By the end of his film, he has firmly shifted focus, concentrating far less on the cyber than on the sex.
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50
TV Guide Ken Fox
The film is hardly profound, but the form perfectly fits the content..
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50
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The film's redeeming feature is that it knows how sad these people are, and finds the correct solution to their problems: They meet in the flesh.
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30
LA Weekly Ernest Hardy
As the characters mix and mingle, pouring out their tales of woe online and fumbling real-life connections, Weintrob leaves no cliché unturned in getting to root causes of behavior.
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30
Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
Most of the action in this 2001 indie drama takes place on computer screens, with grainy faces framed by sharp little boxes; the 21st-century conceit is topical enough but the characters and their problems couldn't be more stale.
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25
New York Post Megan Lehmann
It's really just about a bunch of pathetic losers whiling away the hours with their hands jammed down their pants.
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20
Washington Post Desson Thomson
There's something so familiar and commonplace about this story and its characters...it's hard to get particularly thrilled.
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20
Village Voice Dennis Lim
Indifferently written, passably acted, resourcefully shot in video with enlivening splashes of local color.
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0
San Francisco Chronicle C.W. Nevius
Listless, self-absorbed slackers stare into computer monitors, groan about their lives and moan during cyber sex in On_Line. It makes you wonder, is there is a market for soft-porn movies for lonely geeks? Isn't that what computers are for in the first place?
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 9.2 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Marc L. gave it a 7:
A few smart filmmaking ideas, otherwise rates a "worth watching on video" ranking.

Brandon B. gave it a 10:
Incredible!

Ricky D. gave it a 10:
Thrilling!

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