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  • 2006
  • R
  • Bold Films
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2006
  • R
  • Bold Films
  • 1 h 37 m

Summary Come Early Morning is a beautifully rendered film about a southern woman in a small-town, rural community, a subject director Joey Lauren Adams obviously knows intimately. Fueled by a nuanced performance from Ashley Judd, this film is about life transitions, the search for love, and the burdens we carry with us. (Roadside Attractions)

Directed By: Joey Lauren Adams

Written By: Joey Lauren Adams

  • 2006
  • R
  • Bold Films
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2006
  • R
  • Bold Films
  • 1 h 37 m

Come Early Morning

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
64
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary Come Early Morning is a beautifully rendered film about a southern woman in a small-town, rural community, a subject director Joey Lauren Adams obviously knows intimately. Fueled by a nuanced performance from Ashley Judd, this film is about life transitions, the search for love, and the burdens we carry with us. (Roadside Attractions)

Directed By: Joey Lauren Adams

Written By: Joey Lauren Adams

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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69% Positive
11 Reviews
25% Mixed
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6% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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69% Positive
11 Reviews
25% Mixed
4 Reviews
6% Negative
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91
The baby-voiced costar of "Chasing Amy" proves an effortless filmmaker, turning Lucy’s journey into the awakening of a soul.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
75
Both Adams and Judd have been let down by Hollywood. Here they have the freedom to express their uniquely Southern takes on music, faith, family and femininity. This intensely personal film may not bring either of them widespread acclaim, but it's a small triumph nonetheless.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
75
Adams has a good camera eye and a fine feeling for the regional mores of the South, where she's from. Judd, who for a change isn't being terrorized in a thriller, is more nuanced and intense than she's ever been.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
70
No new narrative ground is broken, but there's a lived-in, musical feel to this tale of a fiercely independent, thoroughly screwed-up building contractor (Ashley Judd, in a pleasing return to the directness of her first significant role, in Victor Nunez's "Ruby in Paradise").
By Ella Taylor FULL REVIEW
63
Artfully shot and excruciatingly honest, the movie has great intentions but can't quite overcome its outsized sense of self-importance.
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50
Judd's typically lived-in performance and the authentic Arkansas locations -- cramped bars, dusty roads -- help vaguely distinguish a movie that comes on like a minor-key reprise of Judd's breakthrough "Ruby in Paradise" and every other rural indie melodrama to grace Sundance since.
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The end result is stale, clumsy, and about as compelling as an average episode of "As the World Turns."
By Pete Vonder Haar FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Bold Films, Firm Films, Holly Wiersma Productions
Release Date Nov 10, 2006
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating R
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Tagline Before you fall in love, you need to love yourself.
Website http://www.comeearlymorningthefilm.com/
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Awards

Women in Film Crystal Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Memphis Indie Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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