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  • 2015
  • International Film Circuit
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2015
  • International Film Circuit
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary In a recurring poetic image, 17-year-old Regina Diane Nicholson swings between heaven and earth on a breathtakingly high cliff by the sea. Reggie is a tomboy struggling with terminal illness, her parents and her dream of making a film. She impresses us with her loving, strong personality and wisdom beyond her years, as well as her morbid...

Directed By: Regina Nicholson

Written By: Henry Corra, Kimberley Hassett, Regina Nicholson

  • 2015
  • International Film Circuit
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2015
  • International Film Circuit
  • 1 h 30 m

Farewell to Hollywood

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary In a recurring poetic image, 17-year-old Regina Diane Nicholson swings between heaven and earth on a breathtakingly high cliff by the sea. Reggie is a tomboy struggling with terminal illness, her parents and her dream of making a film. She impresses us with her loving, strong personality and wisdom beyond her years, as well as her morbid...

Directed By: Regina Nicholson

Written By: Henry Corra, Kimberley Hassett, Regina Nicholson

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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80
Feb 24, 2015
[A] bizarre and wonderful doc that's pitched like a home movie but crafted with fine, poignant sensibilities.
By Diana Clarke FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 25, 2015
Documentary films often find their value in taking us to places that are challenging, even painful. Farewell to Hollywood offers the rewarding difficulties of that type of filmmaking, along with additional challenges that stem from questions about its own ethics.
By Godfrey Cheshire FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 25, 2015
It suggests that a disease isn't a product of one single person's body, but the eruption of an entire family history of unarticulated desire.
By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 26, 2015
This film complements rather than duplicating the recent fest title "Butterfly Girl," which also refused to settle for generic notions of bravery and endurance to hone in on an individual teen's specific experience of illness.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 25, 2015
Farewell to Hollywood is moving yet queasily unsettling, even if Ms. Nicholson’s enthusiasm mitigates the veneer of exploitation. Watching it feels like judging a last will and testament. The movie is an intimate dialogue from which viewers may prefer to recuse themselves.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
40
Feb 25, 2015
There’s a conspicuous self-serving impulse behind Farewell To Hollywood on Corra’s part that makes viewing it an extremely strange and sometimes queasy experience.
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Production Company Corra Films
Release Date Feb 25, 2015
Duration 1 h 30 m
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