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States of Control

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States of Control reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama

Written by: Zachary Winestine

Directed by: Zachary Winestine

Release Date:
Theatrical: April 13, 2001

Running Time: 84 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: Not rated

Starring Jennifer Van Dyck, John Cunningham, Ellen Greene, Stephen Bogardus, Jennie Moreau, Stephen Gevedon, Nancy Giles, and Jason Culp

AA provocative journey deep into the world of a woman determined to break through the sterility of modern life. (Phaedra Cinema)

What The Critics Said

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50

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Conjures up enough involving moments to create some drama.

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40

The New York Times Dave Kehr

In the end, Lisa's revolt seems as predictably programmatic, and as widely abstracted from observable human behavior, as the movie that contains her.

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40

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

While handsomely mounted and generally well acted, the film is undermined by long stretches of awkward, obvious dialogue and by the vagueness of Lisa's revolt against the status quo.

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38

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

The characters speak in Dialogue rather than English, the actors are so busy emoting they forget to act and the story feels like a first-draft college project.

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38

New York Post Lou Lumenick

A sluggish and prototypically earnest little indie on the not exactly fresh theme of a woman undergoing a midlife crisis.

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30

Variety Leonard Klady

Oblique and impenetrable under its glossy surface.

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20

Village Voice Edward Crouse

Takes its heroine, Lisa (Van Dyck), to the neurotic brink.

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What Our Users Said

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