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  • 2007
  • PG-13
  • Focus Features
  • 1 h 57 m
  • 2007
  • PG-13
  • Focus Features
  • 1 h 57 m

Summary Evening is a deeply emotional film that illuminates the timeless love which binds mother and daughter - seen through the prism of one mother’s life as it crests with optimism, navigates a turning point, and ebbs to its close. (Focus Features)

Directed By: Lajos Koltai

Written By: Susan Minot, Michael Cunningham

  • 2007
  • PG-13
  • Focus Features
  • 1 h 57 m
  • 2007
  • PG-13
  • Focus Features
  • 1 h 57 m

Evening

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 33 Critic Reviews
45
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
6.4
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Summary Evening is a deeply emotional film that illuminates the timeless love which binds mother and daughter - seen through the prism of one mother’s life as it crests with optimism, navigates a turning point, and ebbs to its close. (Focus Features)

Directed By: Lajos Koltai

Written By: Susan Minot, Michael Cunningham

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 33 Critic Reviews
45
27% Positive
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55% Mixed
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18% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 33 Critic Reviews
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27% Positive
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55% Mixed
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18% Negative
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The constant shifting between today and years ago is, in and of itself, powerful.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
63
Rather than concentrate on Ann's disappointed infatuation and providing a satisfactory reason for its failure, Minot and, one suspects, Cunningham in particular, chose to flesh out the character of Buddy.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW

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For all the creaminess of the sets and costumes, every character talks as if she is still made out of written words, not flesh, and each woman's struggles feel about as important as a tea dance.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW
50
Evening might be the most shocking waste of natural resources since the despoiling of the Amazon rain forest.
By Carrie Rickey FULL REVIEW
50
Parked uneasily between sensitive indie and studio chick-flick, Lajos Koltai's Evening makes star-studded hash of Susan Minot's beautifully written, if emotionally constricted, novel.
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38
There are few things more depressing than a weeper that doesn't make you weep.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
20
Redgrave still manages to inspire awe, yet a poetically prosaic moment like the one in which she goes chasing after a butterfly is enough to throw a net over the whole thing.
By Marjorie Baumgarten FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Hart Sharp Entertainment, MBF Erste Filmproduktiongesellschaft, Twins Financing
Release Date Jun 29, 2007
Duration 1 h 57 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline Her greatest secret was her greatest gift.
Website http://evening.cmcmovie.com/
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Awards

Alliance of Women Film Journalists
• 1 Nomination
AARP Movies for Grownups Awards
• 1 Nomination
Film by the Sea International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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