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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)

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 26
  3. Negative: 6 out of 26
  1. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Michael Sragow
    88
    A Slipping-Down Life may be low-key, but if you enter its unique atmosphere, you will leave exhilarated.
  2. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    60
    Struggles 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.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    38
    I 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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  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. JamesH
    5
    In spite of Guy Pearce's enigmatic performance, the film is too slow moving and strange to be successful. Lili Taylor is once again bland, but she does give a decent performance. I am supposed to care about some obsessed nutcase that carves the name of her idol with broken glass on her forehead? Don't thinkl so! Pearce does his own singing and is quite good.… Expand
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