- Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
- Release Date: Oct 29, 1999
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83Let loose in a plot that's surprisingly modern about sex and relationships, Morton gives Eva's torn longings an immediacy that transcends a lot of damp, 1950s rusticated preciousness.
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80A beautifully articulated and acutely perceptive work with impeccable, carefully shaded performances.
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80An engrossing, superbly acted film that will haunt the viewer's thoughts long after the film is over.
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75Most of the movie's rewards are in watching Morton.
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75Beautifully shot and often moving.
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70Along with Sheryl Lee, Morton is probably the best actress to have emerged in this decade.
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70A film whose story movingly outfoxes any number of shopworn expectations on its way to a singular, heart-rending outcome.
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60(A) languorous, mud-spattered psychological tale.
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50Sincere acting lends the film a measure of dramatic dignity.
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50Leaves almost no impression at all.
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40The last scene reads like an admission of defeat.
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Tells its glumly bodice-ripping tale with somber sensitivity.
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23An aimless, pointless dawdle.
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