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  • Summary: Single urbanite Gordon meets Debby online and finds their new relationship put to the ultimate test. A suburban widow gets much more than she was looking for when she loses her license and leans on her neighbor for support. And in the country, successful voice-over artist Bill Soap starts to make amends for being such a lousy father. (Bodega Studios) Expand
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  1. Positive: 3 out of 7
  2. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    May 27, 2011
    75
    First-time writer-director Adam Reid has a lightly endearing touch as he allows the actors plenty of space to be warm without being cute.
  2. Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    May 27, 2011
    60
    The parts are ultimately greater than the whole, but Adam Reid's offbeat debut suggests a talent worth watching.
  3. Reviewed by: Chuck Bowen
    May 30, 2011
    50
    Hello Lonesome isn't really that much of a movie, but it has something that a number of more polished pictures in the same vein don't: human decency. Sadly, that's noteworthy.
  4. Reviewed by: Andrew Schenker
    May 25, 2011
    40
    Each of the three intercut stories in Hello Lonesome - all dealing with characters trying to overcome solitude - begins promisingly enough. Eventually, though, they all run aground on questionable decisions.

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