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A Slipping-Down Life
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- Starring: Guy Pearce, Irma P. Hall, Lili Taylor
- Summary: Based on the novel by Anne Tyler, A Slippping Down Life is the story of the unusual courtship of an awkward young woman and a charismatic singer/songwriter, and the profound effect that their unlikely relationship has on each other's lives. (Lions Gate Entertainment)
- Director: Toni Kalem
- Genre(s): Drama, Romance, Music
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Positive: 5 out of 26
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Mixed: 15 out of 26
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Negative: 6 out of 26
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88A Slipping-Down Life may be low-key, but if you enter its unique atmosphere, you will leave exhilarated.
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75The movie is not a great dramatic statement, but you know that from the modesty of the title. It is about movement in emotional waters that had long been still. Taylor makes it work because she quietly suggests that when Evie's life has stalled, something drastic was needed to shock her back into action, and the carving worked as well as anything.
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60Struggles valiantly to keep its head above whimsy, and though the movie finally succumbs to an excess of heartwarming, it's a promising college try from a first-time writer-director.
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38I have not read the Anne Tyler novella from which the movie is adapted, but it is clear from the earliest scenes that Evie and Drumstrings are of a different generation from 37-year-old Taylor and 36-year-old Pearce.
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