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Three Days of Rain
Rogue Arts

Three Days of Rain reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 52 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.3 out of 10
based on 12 reviews
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Don Meredith, Peter Falk, Michael Santoro, Joey Bilow, Merle Kennedy, Erick Avari, Lyle Lovett, and Penelope Allen

Writer/director Michael Meredith's weaves together several tales, loosely based on short stories by Anton Chekhov, and set in present-day Cleveland.


GENRE(S): Drama  
WRITTEN BY: Michael Meredith  
DIRECTED BY: Michael Meredith  
RELEASE DATE: Theatrical: September 30, 2005 
RUNNING TIME: 98 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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75
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
A "Chekhovian" movie that's closer to the master's mood than many, it's also a jazzy, rainy day film that makes serious and amusing points about life and people in the midst of its downpour.
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70
The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
A quiet, thoughtful film about isolation and separation.
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70
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
This is familiar but atmospheric, with good performances by Peter Falk, Blythe Danner, Joey Bilow, Michael Santoro, Merle Kennedy, and former football pro Don Meredith.
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63
New York Post V.A. Musetto
A well-written and -acted drama that's also unrelentingly grim.
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63
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Three Days of Rain is only a sketch compared to the power of Rodrigo Garcia's "Nine Lives," which continues to grow in my memory.
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60
The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
Beautifully lit, with some inventive but unobtrusive framing, and the moody jazz score unifies the multiple storylines without overwhelming them. Yet while the movie never goes slack, it never really transcends its good intentions either.
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60
The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden
Meredith has woven together a half-dozen portraits of contemporary lives-on-the-edge in this quietly searing drama.
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60
LA Weekly Matthew Duersten
The result is both a hypnotic mood piece -- where characters' blank existential stares are framed through rain-beaded car windows -- and a murky riff on urban Midwestern ennui (by way of the Russian steppes).
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50
New York Daily News Jami Bernard
The acting and stories are uneven, but Erick Avari, as a man who wakes up to his humanitarian obligations, provides the movie's affecting center, and Peter Falk gives a harrowing performance as a hopeless drunk trying to manipulate his grown son.
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40
Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
As a filmmaker, Meredith has a strong, if derivative, visual sense, although his screenplay is packed with too many cliches and familiar riffs.
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30
Village Voice Darren Reidy
The real subversion is director Michael Meredith's insistence on not capturing interactions between human beings in a frame; with some forethought he could have filmed the actors individually and spliced.
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20
Variety Ronnie Scheib
Rain strives for a "Magnolia"-type tapestry of quiet desperation. But after 90 unremitting minutes of badly acted, atrociously written histrionic misery, pic leaves one praying for frogs.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 9.3 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

George G. gave it a9:
Haunting, beautiful and top notch acting.

Christina K. gave it a9:
Loved the film. Very subtle and moving.

Crash P. gave it a10:
Beautiful film with real-life stories and a twist. "Rain rain what a pain." Hats off to a new writer/director...can't wait to see more.

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