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Rick

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9.0 User Score:

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama

Written by: Daniel Handler

Directed by: Curtiss Clayton

Release Date:
Theatrical: September 24, 2004
DVD: November 9, 2004

Running Time: 100 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for sexual content and language

Starring Bill Pullman, Aaron Stanford, Agnes Bruckner, Dylan Baker, and Sandra Oh

This modern take on Verdi's Rigoletto is a tale of internet porn, capitalism and murder.

What The Critics Said

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80

Film Threat Merle Bertrand

Haunting and chilling, yet biting black tragi-comedy.

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80

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

This impressive - and utterly depressing - feature debut is another in the current rush of testaments to the power of the new corporation to suck the goodness from its employees and all who have the misfortune to enter its orbit.

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75

New York Post V.A. Musetto

A devilish updating of Verdi's "Rigoletto."

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75

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

If you require that you "like" a movie, then Rick is not for you, because there is nothing likable about it. It's rotten to the core and right down to the end. But if you find that such extremes can be fascinating, then the movie may cheer you, not because it is happy, but because it goes for broke.

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60

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

A deliciously bitter tale of lust and betrayal.

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50

Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano

Feels like it was written by an oddball artist-temp type with an ax to grind - which, as it happens, it was.

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50

Village Voice Jorge Morales

Rick (Bill Pullman) is an embittered cad who fails to earn the audience's sympathy, so the film falls short of its source's tragic dimensions. That aside, Daniel Handler's script and Curtiss Clayton's direction hit all the right notes, especially in the final act.

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50

The New York Times Stephen Holden

The belated sentimentality of the movie is as thudding as its fire-and-brimstone moralism; they're really two sides of the same counterfeit coin.

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50

Boston Globe Ty Burr

Everything about this curio is claustrophobic.

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50

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

It’s a frequently riveting gambit, and the actors give it their all. However, the mood and the stylized camerawork make the proceedings too arch to completely succeed.

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50

San Francisco Chronicle Joshua Kosman

Seems to want to be a fierce satire of corporate culture. But by hewing so faithfully to their source, the creators don't let the material pursue its own direction, and the result feels dramatically arbitrary.

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40

The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray

It's hard for Rick to maintain this jangled tone, which aims to be simultaneously heartbreaking and broadly satirical. The latter tack pushes Rick too far, and too soon.

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30

Variety Todd McCarthy

A noxious little tale of Wall Street types whose amorality knows no limit, Rick takes smarmy knowingness to ludicrous extremes.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Raoul D. gave it a9:
Excepting, maybe, only Sandra Oh's character, this movie is bereft of sympathetic characters. I enjoyed a perverse satisfaction in watching this movie. If you've ever worked in a corporation, but didn't really want to, there are many things in this movie that will look familiar. The characters are trapped in their lives and utterly clueless about how to change them. Finding themselves backed into corners, they resort to primal impulses to express themselves. This movie presents the corporate world as hell and money worship as the new idolatry. I'm unfamiliar with "Rigaletto", so I can't make any comparisons there. All I can say is that I've seen men whose souls have been replaced with money and worked with people who look at employees less as individuals than as parts of a machine that produces wealth and power. (I even worked at a company that held a big corporate Rah-Rah event that used mountain climbing as a theme for coprorate unity and success. No kidding.) Everything becomes a great, big pissing contest. People communicate with artificial congeniality and words that they assume others want to hear so that they sound like they're in the loop and thinking outside the box. Is it conceivable that a business man would sacrifice thousands of people's lives and spend a few years in prison to collect $43,000 a month for life guaranteed? Ask Ken and Linda Lay. Soon, all corporations will merge into one blind idiot god of commerce--the cyclopian corridors of the Azathoth Corporation will echo with a fluted Muzak version of "The Girl from Ipanema".

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